microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 30B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 24, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

62 vs 92

Hardware Fit

99 vs 95

Quality Score

46 vs 90

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]

OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Tokens/sec40.324.8

First chunk289 ms11 ms

TTFT289 ms735 ms

Load timeN/A11.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.6 GB

Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Speed

45/50

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

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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