mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3:14b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max
Global Score
72 vs 58
Hardware Fit
99 vs 82
Quality Score
61 vs 48
Hardware
mlx-community/gemm… qwen3:14b
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… qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec86.324.4
First chunk253 ms294 ms
TTFT253 ms7.9 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage1.1 GB13.8 GB
Memory %4%43%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
qwen3:14b
Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
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
qwen3:14b
Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest