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gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
89 vs 59
Hardware Fit
95 vs 63
Quality Score
87 vs 58

Hardware

gemma4:26b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec48.318.3
First chunk346 ms4 ms
TTFT346 ms530 ms
Load time4.4 sN/A
Memory usage36.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %29%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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