microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 12B · Q4_0

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score

62 vs 74

Hardware Fit

99 vs 46

Quality Score

46 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… google/gemma-4-12b…

MachineMacBook AirDocker Container

CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Cores1016

RAM32 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… google/gemma-4-12b…

Tokens/sec40.35.0

First chunk289 ms64 ms

TTFT289 ms5.5 s

Load timeN/A9.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

Speed

9/50

TTFT

7/20

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

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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