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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score
62 vs 62
Hardware Fit
99 vs 91
Quality Score
46 vs 50

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec40.3170.2
First chunk289 ms142 ms
TTFT289 ms142 ms
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage2.0 GB1.6 GB
Memory %6%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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