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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi-reasoning

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Global Score
62 vs 85
Hardware Fit
99 vs 80
Quality Score
46 vs 87

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi…
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Raphael
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi…
Tokens/sec40.338.8
First chunk289 ms17 ms
TTFT289 ms432 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB24.6 GB
Memory %6%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi-reas…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi-reas…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
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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