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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 78
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
46 vs 68

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… lfm2-24b-a2b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec40.3105.9
First chunk289 ms252 ms
TTFT289 ms252 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB0.1 GB
Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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