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gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 66
Hardware Fit
50 vs 100
Quality Score
25 vs 51

Hardware

gemma4:26b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec20.085.4
First chunk941 ms115 ms
TTFT30.0 s115 ms
Load time0.2 s0.5 s
Memory usage20.3 GB2.6 GB
Memory %85%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
8/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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