gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 80

Hardware Fit

51 vs 83

Quality Score

87 vs 78

Hardware

gemma-3-27b-it-qat gemma3:12b

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 gemma3:12b

Tokens/sec8.912.7

First chunk3976 msN/A

TTFT4.0 s560 ms

Load timeN/A2.8 s

Memory usage15.7 GB11.0 GB

Memory %25%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest