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

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 55
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
19 vs 36

Hardware

gemma-3-270m-it-qa… phi-3.5-mini-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… phi-3.5-mini-instr…
Tokens/sec344.243.4
First chunk173 ms359 ms
TTFT173 ms359 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB2.0 GB
Memory %1%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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