gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

33 vs 72

Hardware Fit

50 vs 51

Quality Score

25 vs 81

Hardware

gemma4:26b qwen3.5-9b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec20.014.4

First chunk941 ms4 ms

TTFT30.0 s824 ms

Load time0.2 sN/A

Memory usage20.3 GB48.3 GB

Memory %85%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

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

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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