microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 51

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec90.385.4

First chunk198 ms115 ms

TTFT198 ms115 ms

Load timeN/A0.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB2.6 GB

Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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