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mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 34
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
71 vs 6

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… microllm-250m:latest
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… microllm-250m:latest
Tokens/sec43.2291.6
First chunk428 ms50 ms
TTFT428 ms79 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage1.3 GB0.6 GB
Memory %4%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

microllm-250m:latest

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

Quality

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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