qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 85

Hardware Fit

67 vs 77

Quality Score

38 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma4:26b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec18.724.5

First chunkN/A1481 ms

TTFT12.1 s1.5 s

Load time1.2 s24.7 s

Memory usage9.5 GB20.3 GB

Memory %30%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

8/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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