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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
71 vs 81

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… openai/gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec43.230.5
First chunk428 ms18 ms
TTFT428 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.3 GB15.8 GB
Memory %4%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
17/30

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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