google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 33

Hardware Fit

100 vs 74

Quality Score

66 vs 15

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec39.411.5

First chunk468 ms670 ms

TTFT468 ms670 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.8 GB3.0 GB

Memory %9%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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