microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning
LM-STUDIO MLXphi3 · 3.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
llama3.2:3b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
62 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 99
Quality Score
46 vs 63
Hardware
microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3.2:3b
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… llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec40.321.1
First chunk289 ms1032 ms
TTFT289 ms1.0 s
Load timeN/A8.4 s
Memory usage2.0 GB2.4 GB
Memory %6%32%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
llama3.2:3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
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
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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