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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 75
Hardware Fit
82 vs 93
Quality Score
89 vs 67

Hardware

gpt-oss-safeguard-… llama3.1:8b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gpt-oss-safeguard-… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec41.420.3
First chunk8 msN/A
TTFT3.6 s315 ms
Load timeN/A1.1 s
Memory usage14.5 GB10.4 GB
Memory %61%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
20/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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