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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 87
Hardware Fit
99 vs 85
Quality Score
46 vs 88

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-coder-30b-a3…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-coder-30b-a3…
Tokens/sec40.345.7
First chunk289 ms17 ms
TTFT289 ms390 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB22.4 GB
Memory %6%70%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

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-a3b-ins…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
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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