microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

64 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 60

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… mistral:latest

MachineMac miniMac Mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… mistral:latest

Tokens/sec90.354.3

First chunk198 msN/A

TTFT198 ms124 ms

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.9 GB

Memory %3%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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