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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama3:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
64 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
48 vs 60

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama3:latest
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… llama3:latest
Tokens/sec90.322.3
First chunk198 msN/A
TTFT198 ms295 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %3%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

llama3:latest

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
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

llama3:latest

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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