microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

62 vs 87

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 81

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Tokens/sec40.371.6

First chunk289 ms5 ms

TTFT289 ms157 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB20.5 GB

Memory %6%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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