gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 74

Hardware Fit

64 vs 91

Quality Score

94 vs 66

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx granite3.1-dense:8b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4

Cores1610

RAM128 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx granite3.1-dense:8b

Tokens/sec13.618.8

First chunk16 msN/A

TTFT558 ms308 ms

Load time12.3 s0.6 s

Memory usage0.0 GB13.0 GB

Memory %0%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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