gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

78 vs 57

Hardware Fit

72 vs 61

Quality Score

81 vs 55

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M2 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM16 GB125 GB

GPUApple M2 ProAMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec26.930.3

First chunk222 ms205 ms

TTFT222 ms8.7 s

Load time0.1 s5.6 s

Memory usage15.4 GB18.8 GB

Memory %96%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

2/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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