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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 89
Hardware Fit
97 vs 95
Quality Score
30 vs 87

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen/qwen3-8b
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 qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec239.233.4
First chunk127 ms257 ms
TTFT127 ms257 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB4.3 GB
Memory %2%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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