microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-instruct:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score

64 vs 93

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

48 vs 91

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-…

MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Cores1416

RAM64 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-…

Tokens/sec90.3100.0

First chunk198 ms1275 ms

TTFT198 ms1.3 s

Load timeN/A23.6 s

Memory usage2.0 GB21.0 GB

Memory %3%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

17/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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