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gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
43 vs 91
Hardware Fit
99 vs 96
Quality Score
19 vs 89

Hardware

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec344.224.7
First chunk173 ms610 ms
TTFT173 ms610 ms
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage0.3 GB7.1 GB
Memory %1%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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