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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 94
Quality Score
81 vs 70

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec47.322.2
First chunk258 ms285 ms
TTFT258 ms285 ms
Load time5.1 s0.8 s
Memory usage7.9 GB7.6 GB
Memory %49%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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