microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

62 vs 23

Hardware Fit

99 vs 70

Quality Score

46 vs 3

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:latest

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:latest

Tokens/sec40.39.8

First chunk289 ms1206 ms

TTFT289 ms1.2 s

Load timeN/A17.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB4.8 GB

Memory %6%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

18/30

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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