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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

72 vs 13

Hardware Fit

99 vs 41

Quality Score

61 vs 1

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:2b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:2b

Tokens/sec86.34.5

First chunk253 ms1413 ms

TTFT253 ms31.1 s

Load timeN/A7.1 s

Memory usage1.1 GB3.8 GB

Memory %4%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:2b

Speed

11/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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