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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 65
Hardware Fit
97 vs 99
Quality Score
30 vs 51

Hardware

gemma3:270m smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM36 GB32 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec239.228.5
First chunk127 ms393 ms
TTFT127 ms393 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %2%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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