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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
64 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
48 vs 81

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-9b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1414
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec90.330.2
First chunk198 ms499 ms
TTFT198 ms499 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB6.7 GB
Memory %3%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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