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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
64 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
48 vs 54

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac miniiMac
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores148
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec90.319.6
First chunk198 ms690 ms
TTFT198 ms690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage2.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %3%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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