microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

62 vs 61

Hardware Fit

99 vs 85

Quality Score

46 vs 51

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:0.6b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec40.327.0

First chunk289 ms597 ms

TTFT289 ms8.7 s

Load timeN/A1.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.9 GB

Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

12/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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