microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-4-e4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Global Score

62 vs 83

Hardware Fit

99 vs 96

Quality Score

46 vs 78

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… google/gemma-4-e4b

MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PH

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Cores1032

RAM32 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610M

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… google/gemma-4-e4b

Tokens/sec40.335.9

First chunk289 ms9 ms

TTFT289 ms182 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB6.5 GB

Memory %6%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

google/gemma-4-e4b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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-e4b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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