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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 77
Hardware Fit
86 vs 100
Quality Score
92 vs 67

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen2.5:3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen2.5:3b
Tokens/sec41.847.2
First chunk359 msN/A
TTFT4.2 s168 ms
Load time5.1 s0.5 s
Memory usage7.9 GB4.0 GB
Memory %49%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
25/30

qwen2.5:3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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