microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 34

Hardware Fit

99 vs 58

Quality Score

46 vs 23

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:latest

Tokens/sec40.313.3

First chunk289 ms438 ms

TTFT289 ms19.8 s

Load timeN/A0.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB8.0 GB

Memory %6%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

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:latest

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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