microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

64 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

48 vs 92

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8:27b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925

Cores1420

RAM64 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.8:27b

Tokens/sec90.329.4

First chunk198 ms306 ms

TTFT198 ms4.8 s

Load timeN/A5.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB16.2 GB

Memory %3%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

5/20

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

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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