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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
64 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 45
Quality Score
48 vs 30

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1432
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec90.316.7
First chunk198 ms781 ms
TTFT198 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A19.9 s
Memory usage2.0 GB21.8 GB
Memory %3%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
15/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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