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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
33 vs 83
Hardware Fit
74 vs 99
Quality Score
15 vs 76

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec11.536.6
First chunk670 ms204 ms
TTFT670 ms204 ms
Load timeN/A2.7 s
Memory usage3.0 GB5.3 GB
Memory %9%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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