stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

45 vs 33

Hardware Fit

100 vs 50

Quality Score

22 vs 25

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b gemma4:26b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec93.820.0

First chunkN/A941 ms

TTFT94 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 s0.2 s

Memory usage1.1 GB20.3 GB

Memory %3%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

Quality

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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