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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 88
Hardware Fit
97 vs 86
Quality Score
30 vs 89

Hardware

gemma3:270m gemma4:12b-it-qat
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1212
RAM36 GB24 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m gemma4:12b-it-qat
Tokens/sec239.230.0
First chunk127 ms686 ms
TTFT127 ms7.1 s
Load time0.7 s5.4 s
Memory usage0.6 GB7.1 GB
Memory %2%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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