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google/gemma-4-e4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 77
Hardware Fit
96 vs 67
Quality Score
78 vs 81

Hardware

google/gemma-4-e4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PHMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 8940HXApple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610MApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-4-e4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec35.920.3
First chunk9 ms4216 ms
TTFT182 ms4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage6.5 GB5.6 GB
Memory %43%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-4-e4b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

google/gemma-4-e4b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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