I tried it on my mac, for coding, and I wasn't really impressed compared to Qwen.

I guess there are things it's better at?

You're comparing apples to oranges there. Qwen 3.5 is a much larger model at 397B parameters vs. Gemma's 31B. Gemma will be better at answering simple questions and doing basic automation, and codegen won't be it's strong suit.

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kgeist 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Qwen3.5 comes in various sizes (including 27B), and judging by the posts on HN, /LocalLlama etc., it seems to be better at logic/reasoning/coding/tool calling compared to Gemma 4, while Gemma 4 is better at creative writing and world knowledge (basically nothing changed from the Qwen3 vs. Gemma3 era)

	▲	Mil0dV 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does this also apply to gemma's 26B-A4B vs say Qwens 35B-A3B? I'm not sure if I can make the 35B-A3B work with my 32GB machine

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tredre3 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gemma 4 31B is still not impressive at coding compare to even Qwen 3.5 27B. It's just not its strong suit.

So far gemma 4 seems excellent at role playing, document analysis, and decent at making agentic decisions.

	▲	gigatexal 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This has been my experience as well, Qwen via Ollama locally has been very very impressive.