gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q8_0

MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Pro)

16 GB · macOS 26.6.2

Tested on August 25, 2026 · Submitted by AAA

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Global Score

88 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

83/100

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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: 27.8
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.8
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 204 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 204 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 6.6 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: 1034

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction following

17/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.32.15
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: ENTRY
Result hash: 966f34a014c373f2de6a963cb825f8f3bc84138211c4492676c61682157f9ef3

Interpretation

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

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 39% (peak 48%)

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