Gemma 4 E2B tops Qwen 3.5 edge benchmarks

Gemma 4 E2B is the new heavyweight champion for edge reasoning, but its massive parameter count makes the "2B" label a marketing stretch that penalizes storage-constrained users. While it maintains usable performance on Raspberry Pi 5 hardware, its 7.2GB disk requirement is nearly triple that of Qwen 3.5. Developers must weigh Gemma's superior text reasoning against Qwen's stronger multimodal capabilities for vision-heavy edge tasks.