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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:31b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 31.3B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 13, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
36 vs 76
Hardware Fit
53 vs 46
Quality Score
28 vs 89

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.322.4
First chunk27 ms565 ms
TTFT20.7 s30.0 s
Load time15.4 s6.9 s
Memory usage1.0 GB43.9 GB
Memory %4%69%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:31b

Speed
30/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
16/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:31b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest