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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
81 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec72.040.3
First chunk7 ms289 ms
TTFT176 ms289 ms
Load time6.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %0%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

Quality

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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