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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 66

Hardware Fit

99 vs 87

Quality Score

61 vs 57

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec86.318.3

First chunk253 ms541 ms

TTFT253 ms541 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.1 GB4.7 GB

Memory %4%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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