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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 53
Hardware Fit
97 vs 89
Quality Score
30 vs 38

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM36 GB64 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec239.252.9
First chunk127 ms4013 ms
TTFT127 ms4.0 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %2%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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