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OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
19 vs 46

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/sec133.440.3
First chunk61 ms289 ms
TTFT61 ms289 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.2 GB2.0 GB
Memory %1%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

Quality

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Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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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