microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score

62 vs 67

Hardware Fit

99 vs 77

Quality Score

46 vs 63

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3.2:3b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20U30029MB

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Cores108

RAM32 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]

OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3.2:3b

Tokens/sec40.310.0

First chunk289 ms1166 ms

TTFT289 ms1.2 s

Load timeN/A6.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB3.8 GB

Memory %6%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed

27/50

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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