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google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 65
Hardware Fit
56 vs 96
Quality Score
93 vs 52

Hardware

google/gemma-4-26b… starling-lm:7b
MachineDocker ContainerMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M4
Cores1610
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

google/gemma-4-26b… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec12.023.8
First chunk86 ms232 ms
TTFT2.8 s232 ms
Load time57.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage9.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %59%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-…

Speed
22/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
20/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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