microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 45

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 22

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… stablelm2:1.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec40.393.8

First chunk289 msN/A

TTFT289 ms94 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.0 GB1.1 GB

Memory %6%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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