Gemma 4 26B (4B active)
on M4 Pro 24GB · Ollama · 65,536 ctx
Use cases
agentictool-uselong-context
Summary
User reports Gemma 4 26B-A4B QAT at 36-38 tok/s generation on an M4 Pro 24GB MacBook Pro.
Setup is Ollama (llama.cpp) with QAT 4-bit weights, q8_0 KV cache, flash attention on, and a 64K context window; the model is 14 GB and 100% GPU-resident.
Prefill is 95-125 tok/s on short prompts, cold load ~16 s, warm reload 0.4 s. The user notes the model squeezes the rest of the OS (9% memory free, swap nearly full) and that a dense 31B would spill to CPU.