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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
85 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 75
Quality Score
81 vs 78

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1024
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.5Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec47.330.5
First chunk258 ms291 ms
TTFT258 ms291 ms
Load time5.1 s4.8 s
Memory usage7.9 GB8.8 GB
Memory %49%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

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