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gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
76 vs 36
Hardware Fit
51 vs 100
Quality Score
87 vs 8

Hardware

gemma-3-27b-it-qat qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-3-27b-it-qat qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec8.955.2
First chunk3976 ms210 ms
TTFT4.0 s210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage15.7 GB0.9 GB
Memory %25%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest