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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 34
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
30 vs 6

Hardware

gemma3:270m microllm-250m:latest
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1212
RAM36 GB24 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m microllm-250m:latest
Tokens/sec239.2291.6
First chunk127 ms50 ms
TTFT127 ms79 ms
Load time0.7 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

microllm-250m:latest

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

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

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest