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nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
77 vs 71

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… gemma2:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… gemma2:9b
Tokens/sec47.917.5
First chunk465 msN/A
TTFT465 ms347 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage16.6 GB8.2 GB
Memory %52%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

gemma2:9b

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

Quality

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

gemma2:9b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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