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

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 47
Hardware Fit
99 vs 53
Quality Score
19 vs 45

Hardware

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… qwen3:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec344.211.3
First chunk173 msN/A
TTFT173 ms9.2 s
Load timeN/A0.1 s
Memory usage0.3 GB7.2 GB
Memory %1%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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