microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 9, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10400

Global Score

64 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 71

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

MachineMac miniMac Pro

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-10400

Cores1412

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.1

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

Tokens/sec90.375.0

First chunk198 ms136 ms

TTFT198 ms136 ms

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.8 GB

Memory %3%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

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

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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