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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

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
64 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 56
Quality Score
48 vs 78

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac miniSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1412
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec90.35.3
First chunk198 ms1624 ms
TTFT198 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB7.9 GB
Memory %3%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

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

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