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unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q3_K_M

Excellent

Apr 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
90 vs 66
Hardware Fit
85 vs 91
Quality Score
92 vs 55

Hardware

unsloth/gemma-4-26… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

unsloth/gemma-4-26… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.933.2
First chunk15 ms7 ms
TTFT817 ms311 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %70%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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