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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
91 vs 62
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 46

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 ProApple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec24.767.6
First chunk610 ms209 ms
TTFT610 ms209 ms
Load time3.6 s1.9 s
Memory usage7.1 GB2.6 GB
Memory %45%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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