microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score

64 vs 89

Hardware Fit

100 vs 96

Quality Score

48 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-…

MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Cores1416

RAM64 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-…

Tokens/sec90.348.5

First chunk198 ms39 ms

TTFT198 ms283 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB13.7 GB

Memory %3%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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