microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 48

Hardware Fit

99 vs 77

Quality Score

46 vs 35

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec40.318.9

First chunk289 ms316 ms

TTFT289 ms13.0 s

Load timeN/A3.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.9 GB

Memory %6%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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