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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
64 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
48 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec90.3129.4
First chunk198 ms49 ms
TTFT198 ms49 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB20.5 GB
Memory %3%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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