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nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
77 vs 46

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… microsoft/phi-4-mi…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… microsoft/phi-4-mi…
Tokens/sec47.940.3
First chunk465 ms289 ms
TTFT465 ms289 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.6 GB2.0 GB
Memory %52%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

Quality

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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