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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
50 vs 36
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
30 vs 8

Hardware

gemma3:270m qwen36-distill-apex
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 qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec239.255.2
First chunk127 ms210 ms
TTFT127 ms210 ms
Load time0.7 s4.8 s
Memory usage0.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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