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nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 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
84 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
77 vs 51

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
Tokens/sec47.999.6
First chunk465 ms18 ms
TTFT465 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage16.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

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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