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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

36 vs 65

Hardware Fit

53 vs 96

Quality Score

28 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM24 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.399.6

First chunk27 ms18 ms

TTFT20.7 s1.6 s

Load time15.4 s4.8 s

Memory usage1.0 GB0.3 GB

Memory %4%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

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

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Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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