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gemma4:e2b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 77
Hardware Fit
99 vs 94
Quality Score
75 vs 70

Hardware

gemma4:e2b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
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 deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec70.422.2
First chunk96 ms285 ms
TTFT96 ms285 ms
Load time2.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage5.7 GB7.6 GB
Memory %36%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:e2b-mlx

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
44/50
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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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