microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score

64 vs 10

Hardware Fit

100 vs 33

Quality Score

48 vs 0

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…

MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Cores1464

RAM64 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…

Tokens/sec90.33.5

First chunk198 ms3509 ms

TTFT198 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A30.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB22.0 GB

Memory %3%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed

3/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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