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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
71 vs 70

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.222.2
First chunk428 ms285 ms
TTFT428 ms285 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage1.3 GB7.6 GB
Memory %4%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

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Speed
44/50
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

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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