gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXgemma3_text · 270M · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
43 vs 76
Hardware Fit
99 vs 89
Quality Score
19 vs 71
Hardware
gemma-3-270m-it-qa… ministral-3:8b
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… ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec344.219.5
First chunk173 ms328 ms
TTFT173 ms328 ms
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage0.3 GB10.6 GB
Memory %1%33%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
ministral-3:8b
Speed
39/50
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
ministral-3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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