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Gemma 4: 26b model praised for local performance and German language skills

A user on r/LocalLLaMA expressed strong appreciation for the Gemma 4: 26b model, highlighting its impressive performance for its size and speed. The model is praised for its writing ability, soulful personality, and strong knowledge base, particularly in German. Despite not matching Qwen's agentic or coding performance, it is considered sufficient and surprisingly capable for local use, running at 10-23 tokens/s on older hardware. AI

IMPACT Highlights the capabilities of smaller, locally runnable models for specific tasks and languages.

RANK_REASON User appreciation post for a specific model, not a primary release or significant industry event.

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Gemma 4: 26b model praised for local performance and German language skills

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/dampflokfreund ·

    Appreciation for Gemma 4 26b A4b

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I really love this model, I have been using the q4_k_l by Bartowski (I have heard QAT is quite the downgrade in some aspects) and it handles every task I throw at it easily. Agentic and coding performance is not as good as Qwen of course but good…