microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

64 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 72

Quality Score

48 vs 45

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Max

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Max

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec90.318.6

First chunk198 ms403 ms

TTFT198 ms10.2 s

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.1 GB

Memory %3%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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