mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

50 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

29 vs 61

Hardware

mlx-community/stab… mlx-community/gemm…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/stab… mlx-community/gemm…

Tokens/sec93.686.3

First chunk166 ms253 ms

TTFT166 ms253 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB1.1 GB

Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

3/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest