microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score

62 vs 71

Hardware Fit

99 vs 42

Quality Score

46 vs 84

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…

MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Cores1064

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

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Tokens/sec40.34.0

First chunk289 ms2070 ms

TTFT289 ms2.1 s

Load timeN/A44.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB17.7 GB

Memory %6%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed

3/50

TTFT

9/20

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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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