gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

85 vs 75

Hardware Fit

64 vs 50

Quality Score

94 vs 86

Hardware

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen2.5:72b

MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4 MaxCortex-X925

Cores1620

RAM128 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxDevice 2e12

OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx qwen2.5:72b

Tokens/sec13.64.4

First chunk16 ms529 ms

TTFT558 ms529 ms

Load time12.3 s49.7 s

Memory usage0.0 GB54.0 GB

Memory %0%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:72b

Speed

4/50

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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