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

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

76 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 47

Hardware

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

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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

Tokens/sec39.440.2

First chunk468 ms1087 ms

TTFT468 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/A6.2 s

Memory usage2.8 GB1.4 GB

Memory %9%19%

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

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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