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mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 93
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 90

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… nemotron-3-nano
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec50.693.3
First chunk257 ms257 ms
TTFT257 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.1 GB
Memory %2%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

nemotron-3-nano

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

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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