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gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
85 vs 74
Hardware Fit
64 vs 99
Quality Score
94 vs 63

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx llama3.2:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores166
RAM128 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec13.621.1
First chunk16 ms1032 ms
TTFT558 ms1.0 s
Load time12.3 s8.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB2.4 GB
Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed
14/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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