microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-1_5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

phi2 · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

62 vs 28

Hardware Fit

99 vs 66

Quality Score

46 vs 11

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… phi-1_5

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… phi-1_5

Tokens/sec40.36.9

First chunk289 ms3040 ms

TTFT289 ms3.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB1.4 GB

Memory %6%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

phi-1_5

Speed

24/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

26/30

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

phi-1_5

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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