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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
90 vs 81
Hardware Fit
86 vs 95
Quality Score
92 vs 75

Hardware

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:e4b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec41.8108.3
First chunk359 ms169 ms
TTFT4.2 s169 ms
Load time5.1 s1.7 s
Memory usage7.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %49%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

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

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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