microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 43

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 19

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… tinyllama:1.1b

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… tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec90.3121.0

First chunk198 msN/A

TTFT198 ms82 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %3%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/50

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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