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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 47
Hardware Fit
53 vs 53
Quality Score
28 vs 45

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.311.3
First chunk27 msN/A
TTFT20.7 s9.2 s
Load time15.4 s0.1 s
Memory usage1.0 GB7.2 GB
Memory %4%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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