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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
85 vs 88
Hardware Fit
95 vs 80
Quality Score
81 vs 92

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec47.376.7
First chunk258 ms29 ms
TTFT258 ms30.0 s
Load time5.1 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB23.9 GB
Memory %49%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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