microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

64 vs 90

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

48 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max

Cores1418

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…

Tokens/sec90.386.6

First chunk198 ms13 ms

TTFT198 ms143 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB23.9 GB

Memory %3%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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