microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nemotron_h · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 24, 2026 · Intel Core™ i3-9100F

Global Score

62 vs 83

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 75

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… nvidia-nemotron-3-…

MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H310M S2 2.0

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i3-9100F

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Virtual Desktop Monitor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

OSmacOS 26.3Майкрософт Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… nvidia-nemotron-3-…

Tokens/sec40.328.9

First chunk289 ms22 ms

TTFT289 ms580 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB3.8 GB

Memory %6%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Speed

50/50

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

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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