microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

62 vs 75

Hardware Fit

99 vs 50

Quality Score

46 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen2.5:72b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen2.5:72b

Tokens/sec40.34.4

First chunk289 ms529 ms

TTFT289 ms529 ms

Load timeN/A49.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB54.0 GB

Memory %6%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen2.5:72b

Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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