deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 33

Hardware Fit

94 vs 50

Quality Score

70 vs 25

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b gemma4:26b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:7b gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec22.220.0

First chunk285 ms941 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load time0.8 s0.2 s

Memory usage7.6 GB20.3 GB

Memory %24%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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

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