microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 55

Hardware Fit

99 vs 99

Quality Score

46 vs 36

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama2:7b

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… llama2:7b

Tokens/sec40.325.1

First chunk289 msN/A

TTFT289 ms228 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.8 GB

Memory %6%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

llama2:7b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

30/20

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

llama2:7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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