Performance comparison shows GGUF slightly outperforms MLX for Gemma-4-26B on Apple Silicon hardware

User tested MLX and GGUF versions of Google's Gemma-4-26B model on M1 Max with 32GB RAM

GGUF demonstrated faster prompt processing at 4.28 seconds compared to MLX's 6.32 seconds

Token generation speeds were nearly identical, with GGUF at 52.49 tokens/second versus MLX at 51.61 tokens/second

Test used a 3,000-token prompt containing Python code and Streamlit-related questions

User solicited feedback from experienced community members to verify findings and identify any testing methodology errors