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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama4:scout

OLLAMA GGUF

llama4 · 108.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
64 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 64
Quality Score
48 vs 88

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama4:scout
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… llama4:scout
Tokens/sec90.319.6
First chunk198 ms677 ms
TTFT198 ms677 ms
Load timeN/A13.1 s
Memory usage2.0 GB63.4 GB
Memory %3%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

llama4:scout

Speed
20/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

llama4:scout

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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