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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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 70
Hardware Fit
96 vs 93
Quality Score
78 vs 60

Hardware

google/gemma-4-e4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PHMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 8940HXApple M4
Cores3210
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610MApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-4-e4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec35.932.9
First chunk9 ms3096 ms
TTFT182 ms3.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage6.5 GB2.5 GB
Memory %43%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-4-e4b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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