qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 35

Quality Score

61 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec52.35.9

First chunk285 ms19 ms

TTFT285 ms1.8 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB22.0 GB

Memory %5%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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