gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

33 vs 53

Hardware Fit

50 vs 72

Quality Score

25 vs 45

Hardware

gemma4:26b qwen3.5:9b

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec20.018.6

First chunk941 ms403 ms

TTFT30.0 s10.2 s

Load time0.2 s4.3 s

Memory usage20.3 GB9.1 GB

Memory %85%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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