gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 59

Hardware Fit

64 vs 84

Quality Score

94 vs 48

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx vicuna:13b

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 vicuna:13b

Tokens/sec13.613.4

First chunk16 msN/A

TTFT558 ms438 ms

Load time12.3 s0.6 s

Memory usage0.0 GB10.3 GB

Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/50

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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