microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning
LM-STUDIO MLXphi3 · 3.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
starcoder2:3b
OLLAMA GGUFstarcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
62 vs 35
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
46 vs 7
Hardware
microsoft/phi-4-mi… starcoder2:3b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
microsoft/phi-4-mi… starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec40.331.5
First chunk289 ms392 ms
TTFT289 ms392 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB1.8 GB
Memory %6%24%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
starcoder2:3b
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
starcoder2:3b
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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