microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 87

Hardware Fit

99 vs 82

Quality Score

46 vs 89

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss-safeguard-…

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gpt-oss-safeguard-…

Tokens/sec40.341.4

First chunk289 ms8 ms

TTFT289 ms3.6 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB14.5 GB

Memory %6%61%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

20/30

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-safeguard-20b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

19/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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