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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
50 vs 81
Hardware Fit
97 vs 68
Quality Score
30 vs 87

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1216
RAM36 GB128 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec239.216.4
First chunk127 ms5 ms
TTFT127 ms742 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB38.5 GB
Memory %2%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
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/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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