microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score

62 vs 80

Hardware Fit

99 vs 85

Quality Score

46 vs 78

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Cores1080

RAM32 GB252 GB

GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec40.365.1

First chunk289 ms289 ms

TTFT289 ms4.2 s

Load timeN/A4.6 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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