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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 33
Hardware Fit
78 vs 74
Quality Score
95 vs 15

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec46.111.5
First chunk284 ms670 ms
TTFT3.9 s670 ms
Load time0.1 sN/A
Memory usage10.8 GB3.0 GB
Memory %68%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest