gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 75

Hardware Fit

64 vs 54

Quality Score

94 vs 84

Hardware

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

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 qwen3.5-27b

Tokens/sec13.66.6

First chunk16 ms4364 ms

TTFT558 ms4.4 s

Load time12.3 sN/A

Memory usage0.0 GB15.0 GB

Memory %0%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b

Speed

13/50

TTFT

11/20

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

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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