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MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48 GB · Agentic coding / medium repository
- Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B)MXFP4 · LM StudioComfortableSpeed 65–90 tok/sUses 22 GBFree 15 GB
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B5-bit · LM StudioComfortableSpeed 50–70 tok/sUses 25 GBFree 12 GB
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B5-bit · LM StudioComfortableSpeed 50–70 tok/sUses 25 GBFree 12 GB
- Phi-4 (14B)5-bit · LM StudioAcceptableSpeed 13–17 tok/sUses 14 GBFree 23 GB
| Model | Confidence | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B)MXFP4 · LM Studio | Comfortable | 22 GB | 15 GB | Excellent65–90 tok/s | Comfortable | 128K | Strong | Strong | Medium confidence |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B5-bit · LM Studio | Comfortable | 25 GB | 12 GB | Excellent50–70 tok/s | Comfortable | 128K | Strong | Strong | Medium confidence |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B5-bit · LM Studio | Comfortable | 25 GB | 12 GB | Excellent50–70 tok/s | Comfortable | 128K | Good | Good | Medium confidence |
| Phi-4 (14B)5-bit · LM Studio | Acceptable | 14 GB | 23 GB | Slow13–17 tok/s | Slow | 16K | Fair | Weak | Medium confidence |
Phi-4 (14B)
5-bit · LM Studio
Usable for agentic coding, but expect compromises: generation (13–17 tok/s) is slow for agentic coding — slow steps compound across many agent iterations; ingesting a prompt of 14K tokens takes ≈85 s and each step ≈45 s; across ~25 calls a task takes ≈20 min.
≈23 GB headroom
13–17 tok/s
≈85 s first prompt
16K context
Official
Poorly suited
Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B)
MXFP4 · LM Studio
Yes — this should be comfortable for agentic coding.
≈15 GB headroom
65–90 tok/s
≈20 s first prompt
32K context
Official
Suited
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
5-bit · LM Studio
Yes — this should be comfortable for agentic coding.
≈12 GB headroom
50–70 tok/s
≈20 s first prompt
32K context
Official
Suited
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
5-bit · LM Studio
Yes — this should be comfortable for agentic coding.
≈12 GB headroom
50–70 tok/s
≈20 s first prompt
32K context
Official
Suited