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gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
71 vs 87

Hardware

gemma3:4b gemma-3-27b-it-qat
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:4b gemma-3-27b-it-qat
Tokens/sec34.68.9
First chunkN/A3976 ms
TTFT303 ms4.0 s
Load time1.2 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB15.7 GB
Memory %14%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed
12/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest