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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

yi-coder:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 70
Hardware Fit
74 vs 89
Quality Score
15 vs 62

Hardware

lmstudio-community… yi-coder:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… yi-coder:9b
Tokens/sec11.519.4
First chunk670 ms287 ms
TTFT670 ms287 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage3.0 GB9.6 GB
Memory %9%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

yi-coder:9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

yi-coder:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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