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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
91 vs 48
Hardware Fit
96 vs 98
Quality Score
89 vs 26

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.5Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec24.720.0
First chunk610 ms1116 ms
TTFT610 ms1.1 s
Load time3.6 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB0.3 GB
Memory %45%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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