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

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

64 vs 60

Hardware Fit

100 vs 90

Quality Score

48 vs 47

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE

Cores146

RAM64 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec90.334.6

First chunk198 ms5314 ms

TTFT198 ms5.3 s

Load timeN/A5.1 s

Memory usage2.0 GB1.1 GB

Memory %3%15%

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

10/20

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

11/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

4/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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