microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-1.7b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

64 vs 19

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

48 vs 0

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-1.7b

MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores144

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3-1.7b

Tokens/sec90.35.9

First chunk198 ms2111 ms

TTFT198 ms2.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB1.2 GB

Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-1.7b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3-1.7b

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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