A 4 GB Laptop GPU vs a 6-Core CPU on Gemma 4, Re-Measured in ABBA Order: 4.1x

Gemma 4 E2B q4_0 served by llama.cpp on one laptop, CPU-only and on a GTX 1650 Ti, rebuilt on CUDA 13.4 and re-measured in CPU, GPU, GPU, CPU order with a temperature gate. The card takes decode by 4.14x, and run order moves the answer by about 2%.

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