microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q3_K_M

Excellent

Apr 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

48 vs 92

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… unsloth/gemma-4-26…

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… unsloth/gemma-4-26…

Tokens/sec90.316.5

First chunk198 ms32 ms

TTFT198 ms2.2 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB19.3 GB

Memory %3%80%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Speed

36/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

10/30

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

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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