mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 35

Quality Score

62 vs 86

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Yi-1… google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec29.15.9

First chunk451 ms19 ms

TTFT451 ms1.8 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.9 GB22.0 GB

Memory %3%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest