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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

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 77
Hardware Fit
97 vs 67
Quality Score
30 vs 81

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen3.5-9b-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 qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec239.220.3
First chunk127 ms4216 ms
TTFT127 ms4.2 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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