google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-2-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma2 · 2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

76 vs 58

Hardware Fit

100 vs 50

Quality Score

66 vs 62

Hardware

google/gemma-3-4b gemma-2-2b-it

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-3-4b gemma-2-2b-it

Tokens/sec39.43.6

First chunk468 ms4509 ms

TTFT468 ms4.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.8 GB1.6 GB

Memory %9%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-2-2b-it

Speed

14/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

24/30

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

gemma-2-2b-it

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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