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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

50 vs 64

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

29 vs 48

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec93.690.3

First chunk166 ms198 ms

TTFT166 ms198 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB2.0 GB

Memory %2%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest