google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score

76 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

66 vs 50

Hardware

google/gemma-3-4b llama3.2:1b

MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Cores1016

RAM32 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-3-4b llama3.2:1b

Tokens/sec39.4170.2

First chunk468 ms142 ms

TTFT468 ms142 ms

Load timeN/A3.2 s

Memory usage2.8 GB1.6 GB

Memory %9%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:1b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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