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gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 59
Hardware Fit
86 vs 94
Quality Score
92 vs 44

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec41.845.3
First chunk359 ms2440 ms
TTFT4.2 s2.4 s
Load time5.1 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB0.0 GB
Memory %49%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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

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Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
Memory
29/30

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

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Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest