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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 78
Hardware Fit
85 vs 72
Quality Score
78 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M2 Pro
Cores8010
RAM252 GB16 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M2 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec65.126.9
First chunk289 ms222 ms
TTFT4.2 s222 ms
Load time4.6 s0.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB15.4 GB
Memory %2%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
2/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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