microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

64 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

48 vs 54

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:35b-a3b

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Tokens/sec90.330.5

First chunk198 ms333 ms

TTFT198 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A9.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB25.1 GB

Memory %3%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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