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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 93
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
46 vs 90

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… nemotron-3-nano
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… nemotron-3-nano
Tokens/sec40.393.3
First chunk289 ms257 ms
TTFT289 ms257 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

nemotron-3-nano

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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