microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

62 vs 84

Hardware Fit

99 vs 93

Quality Score

46 vs 80

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:30b-a3b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:30b-a3b

Tokens/sec40.392.7

First chunk289 ms286 ms

TTFT289 ms1.5 s

Load timeN/A15.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB20.3 GB

Memory %6%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

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

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

13/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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