gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 62

Hardware Fit

51 vs 99

Quality Score

87 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec8.940.3

First chunk3976 ms289 ms

TTFT4.0 s289 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage15.7 GB2.0 GB

Memory %25%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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