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 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

64 vs 83

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

48 vs 76

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

Cores1410

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec90.336.6

First chunk198 ms204 ms

TTFT198 ms204 ms

Load timeN/A2.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %3%33%

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

29/30

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

16/20

Coding

14/20

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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