gemma2:2b

gemma2 · 2.6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 38

Hardware Fit

99 vs 64

Quality Score

54 vs 21

Hardware

gemma2:2b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma2:2b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec53.821.7

TTFT170 ms11.9 s

Load time0.6 s3.5 s

Memory usage2.8 GB0.0 GB

Memory %9%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma2:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma2:2b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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