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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

63 vs 83

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/sec50.673.0

First chunk257 ms175 ms

TTFT257 ms175 ms

Load timeN/A3.2 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

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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