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gemma4:e2b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 84
Hardware Fit
99 vs 97
Quality Score
75 vs 78

Hardware

gemma4:e2b-mlx qwen2.5-7b-instruct
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

gemma4:e2b-mlx qwen2.5-7b-instruct
Tokens/sec70.424.4
First chunk96 ms464 ms
TTFT96 ms464 ms
Load time2.5 sN/A
Memory usage5.7 GB4.0 GB
Memory %36%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e2b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:e2b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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