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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
62 vs 90
Hardware Fit
99 vs 98
Quality Score
46 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
Tokens/sec40.361.8
First chunk289 ms325 ms
TTFT289 ms325 ms
Load timeN/A5.5 s
Memory usage2.0 GB12.2 GB
Memory %6%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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