qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 33

Hardware Fit

77 vs 50

Quality Score

35 vs 25

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b gemma4:26b

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec18.920.0

First chunk316 ms941 ms

TTFT13.0 s30.0 s

Load time3.7 s0.2 s

Memory usage5.9 GB20.3 GB

Memory %37%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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