microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

62 vs 89

Hardware Fit

99 vs 96

Quality Score

46 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-coder:30b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-coder:30b

Tokens/sec40.389.9

First chunk289 ms188 ms

TTFT289 ms188 ms

Load timeN/A4.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB30.2 GB

Memory %6%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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