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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
90 vs 65
Hardware Fit
78 vs 96
Quality Score
95 vs 51

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M2 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
Tokens/sec46.199.6
First chunk284 ms18 ms
TTFT3.9 s1.6 s
Load time0.1 s4.8 s
Memory usage10.8 GB0.3 GB
Memory %68%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
16/30

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest