gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 65

Hardware Fit

51 vs 96

Quality Score

87 vs 52

Hardware

gemma-3-27b-it-qat starling-lm:7b

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

gemma-3-27b-it-qat starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec8.923.8

First chunk3976 ms232 ms

TTFT4.0 s232 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage15.7 GB5.3 GB

Memory %25%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

3/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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