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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 21

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… mlx-community/quan…
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/quan…
Tokens/sec50.644.4
First chunk257 ms336 ms
TTFT257 ms336 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

mlx-community/quantized…

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

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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