google/gemma-4-e4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

83 vs 80

Hardware Fit

96 vs 83

Quality Score

78 vs 78

Hardware

google/gemma-4-e4b gemma3:12b

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 gemma3:12b

Tokens/sec35.912.7

First chunk9 msN/A

TTFT182 ms560 ms

Load timeN/A2.8 s

Memory usage6.5 GB11.0 GB

Memory %43%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-4-e4b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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