gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 94

Quality Score

71 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec34.645.3

First chunkN/A2440 ms

TTFT303 ms2.4 s

Load time1.2 sN/A

Memory usage4.6 GB0.0 GB

Memory %14%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

Memory

29/30

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

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest