smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 33

Hardware Fit

100 vs 50

Quality Score

49 vs 25

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b gemma4:26b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec51.820.0

First chunkN/A941 ms

TTFT84 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 s0.2 s

Memory usage3.7 GB20.3 GB

Memory %12%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

Quality

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest