microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

62 vs 76

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 65

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:1.7b

MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB8 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:1.7b

Tokens/sec40.3161.3

First chunk289 ms51 ms

TTFT289 ms51 ms

Load timeN/A5.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB1.6 GB

Memory %6%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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