microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

64 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

48 vs 74

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1412

RAM64 GB8 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec90.393.7

First chunk198 ms249 ms

TTFT198 ms249 ms

Load timeN/A10.1 s

Memory usage2.0 GB2.9 GB

Memory %3%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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