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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 58
Hardware Fit
97 vs 68
Quality Score
30 vs 54

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM36 GB24 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec239.216.7
First chunk127 ms23 ms
TTFT127 ms14.1 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB7.8 GB
Memory %2%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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