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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
91 vs 77
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 67

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen2.5:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M2 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM16 GB7 GB
GPUApple M2 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen2.5:3b
Tokens/sec24.721.4
First chunk610 ms1006 ms
TTFT610 ms1.0 s
Load time3.6 s6.4 s
Memory usage7.1 GB2.0 GB
Memory %45%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:3b

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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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