google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

76 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 46

Hardware

google/gemma-3-4b qwen3.5:0.8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-3-4b qwen3.5:0.8b

Tokens/sec39.467.6

First chunk468 ms209 ms

TTFT468 ms209 ms

Load timeN/A1.9 s

Memory usage2.8 GB2.6 GB

Memory %9%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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