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mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
50 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
29 vs 84

Hardware

mlx-community/stab… openai/gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/stab… openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec93.6131.7
First chunk166 ms7 ms
TTFT166 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB15.8 GB
Memory %2%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/stablelm-…

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

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

Quality

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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