google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 57

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 39

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/sec39.4126.4

First chunk468 ms139 ms

TTFT468 ms139 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.8 GB0.3 GB

Memory %9%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

10/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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