gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 66

Hardware Fit

64 vs 34

Quality Score

94 vs 79

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen3.5:27b

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4

Cores1610

RAM128 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec13.63.8

First chunk16 ms1637 ms

TTFT558 ms1.6 s

Load time12.3 s17.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB21.3 GB

Memory %0%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

8/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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