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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
91 vs 76
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 65

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M2 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM16 GB8 GB
GPUApple M2 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec24.7161.3
First chunk610 ms51 ms
TTFT610 ms51 ms
Load time3.6 s5.2 s
Memory usage7.1 GB1.6 GB
Memory %45%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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