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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
64 vs 36
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 8

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec90.355.2
First chunk198 ms210 ms
TTFT198 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %3%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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