Back to leaderboard

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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
71 vs 65

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… aya-expanse:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… aya-expanse:8b
Tokens/sec43.219.7
First chunk428 ms350 ms
TTFT428 ms350 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage1.3 GB6.2 GB
Memory %4%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

aya-expanse:8b

Speed
39/50
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

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
View mlx-community/gemm… details | View aya-expanse:8b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest