gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 71

Hardware Fit

77 vs 35

Quality Score

89 vs 86

Hardware

gemma4:26b google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec24.55.9

First chunk1481 ms19 ms

TTFT1.5 s1.8 s

Load time24.7 sN/A

Memory usage20.3 GB22.0 GB

Memory %85%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

8/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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