gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

90 vs 36

Hardware Fit

78 vs 53

Quality Score

95 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M2 ProApple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB24 GB

GPUApple M2 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec46.110.3

First chunk284 ms27 ms

TTFT3.9 s20.7 s

Load time0.1 s15.4 s

Memory usage10.8 GB1.0 GB

Memory %68%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

16/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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