gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q8_0

THINKING MODEL

MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Pro)

16 GB · macOS 26.6.2

Tested on August 26, 2026 · Submitted by AAA

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Global Score

91 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

88/100

Quality

92/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Pro
CPU: Apple M1 Pro
Cores: 10 total (8 perf + 2 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M1 Pro
OS: macOS 26.6.2
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 30.0
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 311 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 6.2 s
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 6.9 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 5.0 GB (31%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1454
Thinking tokens (est.) Estimated internal reasoning tokens — models with "thinking" generate more tokens: ~603

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

8/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction following

15/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.32.15
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: ENTRY
Result hash: 47c4ca3e2f4e7c99e21213614879c00da27a4bcf334695271dbe3587226b1ec1

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 88/100. Overall suitability: EXCELLENT (Global 91/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Strong, Instruction Following: Strong, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 33% (peak 43%)

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