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cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 2.6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
67 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
53 vs 67

Hardware

cogito:3b gemma2:2b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:3b gemma2:2b
Tokens/sec45.655.1
First chunk177 msN/A
TTFT177 ms152 ms
Load time0.8 s0.6 s
Memory usage7.0 GB2.8 GB
Memory %22%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:3b

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

gemma2:2b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

cogito:3b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

gemma2:2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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