microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 53

Hardware Fit

99 vs 99

Quality Score

46 vs 33

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… mlx-community/Nanb…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… mlx-community/Nanb…

Tokens/sec40.325.4

First chunk289 ms266 ms

TTFT289 ms266 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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