mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b
OLLAMA GGUFbailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M
Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
74 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
63 vs 55
Hardware
mlx-community/Llam… maternion/ling-3.0…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Llam… maternion/ling-3.0…
Tokens/sec50.673.6
First chunk257 ms190 ms
TTFT257 ms190 ms
Load timeN/A2.9 s
Memory usage0.7 GB5.9 GB
Memory %2%37%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
Quality
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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