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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

spark-x2.5-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

spark2_5 · 4B · Q4_K_M

Good

Sep 30, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Global Score
64 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 90
Quality Score
48 vs 71

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… spark-x2.5-4b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1416
RAM64 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… spark-x2.5-4b
Tokens/sec90.348.9
First chunk198 ms20 ms
TTFT198 ms168 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB9.4 GB
Memory %3%61%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

spark-x2.5-4b

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

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

spark-x2.5-4b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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