gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

85 vs 83

Hardware Fit

64 vs 96

Quality Score

94 vs 78

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

MachineMacBook ProMac Studio

CPUApple M4 MaxApple M2 Max

Cores1612

RAM128 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxApple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Tokens/sec13.690.6

First chunk16 ms159 ms

TTFT558 ms159 ms

Load time12.3 s5.8 s

Memory usage0.0 GB42.5 GB

Memory %0%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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