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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 94
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx gemma4:26b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M2Cortex-X925
Cores820
RAM8 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec24.767.4
First chunk302 ms529 ms
TTFT7.4 s529 ms
Load time3.2 s6.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB17.6 GB
Memory %47%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

gemma4:26b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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