microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

64 vs 29

Hardware Fit

100 vs 86

Quality Score

48 vs 4

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:4b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE

Cores146

RAM64 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec90.317.9

First chunk198 ms1010 ms

TTFT198 ms6.4 s

Load timeN/A9.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB3.0 GB

Memory %3%40%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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