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-mtp

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Global Score

64 vs 92

Hardware Fit

100 vs 87

Quality Score

48 vs 94

Hardware

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

MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M AORUS PRO

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Cores1412

RAM64 GB47 GB

GPUApple M4 ProAD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti]

OSmacOS 15.7.4cachyos rolling

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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

Tokens/sec90.342.6

First chunk198 ms13 ms

TTFT198 ms3.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB23.2 GB

Memory %3%49%

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

12/20

Memory

25/30

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

20/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

19/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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