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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
78 vs 69
Hardware Fit
72 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 56

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec26.958.1
First chunk222 ms211 ms
TTFT222 ms211 ms
Load time0.1 sN/A
Memory usage15.4 GB1.5 GB
Memory %96%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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