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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
62 vs 78
Hardware Fit
99 vs 51
Quality Score
46 vs 89

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
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

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…
Tokens/sec40.37.1
First chunk289 ms997 ms
TTFT289 ms997 ms
Load timeN/A45.4 s
Memory usage2.0 GB21.6 GB
Memory %6%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
6/50
TTFT
15/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
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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