microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

62 vs 89

Hardware Fit

99 vs 97

Quality Score

46 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Tokens/sec40.3129.4

First chunk289 ms49 ms

TTFT289 ms49 ms

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB20.5 GB

Memory %6%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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