microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

GPT-20B:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

64 vs 93

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

48 vs 94

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… GPT-20B:20b

MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1420

RAM64 GB55 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… GPT-20B:20b

Tokens/sec90.357.8

First chunk198 ms203 ms

TTFT198 ms3.0 s

Load timeN/A19.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB12.0 GB

Memory %3%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

GPT-20B:20b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

11/20

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

GPT-20B:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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