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

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 52
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
19 vs 31

Hardware

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
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… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec344.2257.5
First chunk173 ms99 ms
TTFT173 ms99 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB0.3 GB
Memory %1%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest