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.

Sep 7, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score

62 vs 65

Hardware Fit

99 vs 29

Quality Score

46 vs 81

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, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, 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/sec40.32.4

First chunk289 ms5833 ms

TTFT289 ms5.8 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB135.1 GB

Memory %6%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed

2/50

TTFT

3/20

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

15/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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