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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-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
64 vs 90
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 86

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1416
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec90.378.1
First chunk198 ms7 ms
TTFT198 ms138 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB23.9 GB
Memory %3%19%

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
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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