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Phi-4 14B on Apple M4 Pro (48GB)

Apple M4 Pro (48GB) handles Phi-4 14B well at 35 tok/s at Q5_K_M. A solid choice for this model.

Model Size

14.7B

Device VRAM

48 GB

Bandwidth

273 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Phi-4 14B performance at a different quality level on Apple M4 Pro (48GB).

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q5_K_M35 tok/s200ms✓ YesGoodestimated

Notes

Q5_K_M

14B Q5 fits with massive headroom. Good reasoning on Mac.

About Phi-4 14B

Phi-4 14B (14.7B) is a reasoning, coding, chat model. Microsoft's efficient reasoning and coding model with strong performance per parameter.

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About Apple M4 Pro (48GB)

Apple M4 Pro (48GB) has 48 GB at 273 GB/s. Available in MacBook Pro 16-inch, Mac Mini.

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Source: MLX performance estimates (2026-03-01)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15