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lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

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qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

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Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 22
Hardware Fit
74 vs 50
Quality Score
15 vs 10

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.511.4
First chunk670 msN/A
TTFT670 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A1.0 s
Memory usage3.0 GB16.5 GB
Memory %9%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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Speed
20/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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