microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 23, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

62 vs 80

Hardware Fit

99 vs 60

Quality Score

46 vs 89

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:27b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:27b

Tokens/sec40.311.2

First chunk289 ms429 ms

TTFT289 ms429 ms

Load timeN/A8.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB39.7 GB

Memory %6%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.6:27b

Speed

10/50

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

16/20

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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