microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score

62 vs 61

Hardware Fit

99 vs 31

Quality Score

46 vs 74

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…

MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Cores1080

RAM32 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…

Tokens/sec40.31.7

First chunk289 ms3351 ms

TTFT289 ms3.4 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB134.2 GB

Memory %6%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed

1/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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