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phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 43
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
58 vs 19

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
Tokens/sec36.2344.2
First chunkN/A173 ms
TTFT190 ms173 ms
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage8.3 GB0.3 GB
Memory %26%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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