unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q3_K_M

Excellent

Apr 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

84 vs 59

Hardware Fit

64 vs 65

Quality Score

92 vs 57

Hardware

unsloth/gemma-4-26… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

unsloth/gemma-4-26… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec16.514.3

First chunk32 ms24 ms

TTFT2.2 s13.4 s

Load timeN/A13.3 s

Memory usage19.3 GB2.5 GB

Memory %80%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Speed

36/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

10/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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