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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

72 vs 65

Hardware Fit

99 vs 96

Quality Score

61 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec86.399.6

First chunk253 ms18 ms

TTFT253 ms1.6 s

Load timeN/A4.8 s

Memory usage1.1 GB0.3 GB

Memory %4%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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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Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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