google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 53

Hardware Fit

35 vs 99

Quality Score

86 vs 33

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec5.925.4

First chunk19 ms266 ms

TTFT1.8 s266 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage22.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %92%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

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