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gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
46 vs 65
Hardware Fit
93 vs 99
Quality Score
26 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.928.5
First chunk2204 ms393 ms
TTFT2.2 s393 ms
Load time2.0 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %35%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
29/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Poor

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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