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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

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OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
64 vs 43
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 19

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec90.3133.4
First chunk198 ms61 ms
TTFT198 ms61 ms
Load timeN/A0.5 s
Memory usage2.0 GB0.2 GB
Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

tinyllama

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

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
7/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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