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

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

43 vs 63

Hardware Fit

99 vs 97

Quality Score

19 vs 49

Hardware

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… starling-lm:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec344.223.7

First chunk173 msN/A

TTFT173 ms234 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage0.3 GB5.3 GB

Memory %1%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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