microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

62 vs 68

Hardware Fit

99 vs 91

Quality Score

46 vs 58

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Tokens/sec40.342.2

First chunk289 ms201 ms

TTFT289 ms4.4 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB3.8 GB

Memory %6%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

7/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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