microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score

62 vs 34

Hardware Fit

99 vs 45

Quality Score

46 vs 29

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t2…

MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Cores1032

RAM32 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t2…

Tokens/sec40.316.5

First chunk289 ms772 ms

TTFT289 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A11.6 s

Memory usage2.0 GB22.0 GB

Memory %6%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k…

Speed

15/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k…

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

1/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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