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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

63 vs 33

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… mlx-community/Nanb…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… mlx-community/Nanb…

Tokens/sec50.625.4

First chunk257 ms266 ms

TTFT257 ms266 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB0.0 GB

Memory %2%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

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