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gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
85 vs 66
Hardware Fit
77 vs 91
Quality Score
89 vs 55

Hardware

gemma4:26b 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

gemma4:26b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.533.2
First chunk1481 ms7 ms
TTFT1.5 s311 ms
Load time24.7 sN/A
Memory usage20.3 GB0.5 GB
Memory %85%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
8/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest