microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score

62 vs 95

Hardware Fit

99 vs 98

Quality Score

46 vs 94

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss:20b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Cores1024

RAM32 GB47 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss:20b

Tokens/sec40.3239.9

First chunk289 ms180 ms

TTFT289 ms616 ms

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB13.9 GB

Memory %6%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

gpt-oss:20b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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