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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

72 vs 53

Hardware Fit

99 vs 72

Quality Score

61 vs 45

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec86.318.6

First chunk253 ms403 ms

TTFT253 ms10.2 s

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage1.1 GB9.1 GB

Memory %4%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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