gemma3:4b

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

83 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

71 vs 13

Hardware

gemma3:4b falcon:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:4b falcon:7b

Tokens/sec34.624.3

TTFT303 ms256 ms

Load time1.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage4.6 GB4.0 GB

Memory %14%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

falcon:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

falcon:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

4/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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