microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

64 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

48 vs 55

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max

Cores1418

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec90.333.2

First chunk198 ms7 ms

TTFT198 ms311 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.5 GB

Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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