microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

62 vs 93

Hardware Fit

99 vs 85

Quality Score

46 vs 96

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss:20b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss:20b

Tokens/sec40.347.1

First chunk289 ms320 ms

TTFT289 ms1.8 s

Load timeN/A3.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB16.4 GB

Memory %6%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

gpt-oss:20b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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