Gemma 4 8B E4B
on M1 16GB · Unsloth Studio · 131,100 ctx
Oct 4, 2026
Use cases
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Summary
User reports Gemma 4 E4B at around 8.2 tok/s on an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB unified memory.
Setup is Unsloth Studio with a 4-bit MLX model and a 131.1k context window.
The user says this speed is fine for chatbot use and asks for suggestions of 7B or 8B MLX models for coding and background tasks.