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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 48
Hardware Fit
99 vs 77
Quality Score
61 vs 35

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec86.318.9
First chunk253 ms316 ms
TTFT253 ms13.0 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage1.1 GB5.9 GB
Memory %4%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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