microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

64 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

48 vs 92

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gemma4:26b

MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925

Cores1420

RAM64 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec90.366.7

First chunk198 ms583 ms

TTFT198 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A6.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB17.6 GB

Memory %3%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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