I wonder what parent poster means with „useful” and what he actually tried? Feels like he was just comparing some benchmarks.

Yesterday I downloaded Gemma4-26B with Ollama on quite rusty desktop with 1070 8gb and 32gb of ram and Core i5-9400.

I drop photo of my water meter and tell it to read the value and serial number. It was far from instant but it was also easily under 3 minutes and result was correct.

Earlier like in February I was trying the same photo with Gemma3 on the same hardware and results were bad.