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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
64 vs 86
Hardware Fit
100 vs 79
Quality Score
48 vs 89

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… gemma4:12b
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… gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec90.327.5
First chunk198 ms484 ms
TTFT198 ms484 ms
Load timeN/A8.2 s
Memory usage2.0 GB9.3 GB
Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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