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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
50 vs 66
Hardware Fit
97 vs 91
Quality Score
30 vs 55

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M3 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM36 GB64 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec239.233.2
First chunk127 ms7 ms
TTFT127 ms311 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %2%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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