Back to leaderboard

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 34
Hardware Fit
97 vs 58
Quality Score
30 vs 23

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen3.5:latest
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM36 GB16 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m qwen3.5:latest
Tokens/sec239.213.3
First chunk127 ms438 ms
TTFT127 ms19.8 s
Load time0.7 s0.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB8.0 GB
Memory %2%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
View gemma3:270m details | View qwen3.5:latest 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