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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

orca-mini:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 55
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
71 vs 37

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… orca-mini:7b
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… orca-mini:7b
Tokens/sec43.224.4
First chunk428 msN/A
TTFT428 ms219 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage1.3 GB5.8 GB
Memory %4%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

orca-mini:7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
30/20
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

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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