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OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
19 vs 61

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec133.486.3
First chunk61 ms253 ms
TTFT61 ms253 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.2 GB1.1 GB
Memory %1%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

tinyllama

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

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest