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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
91 vs 79
Hardware Fit
96 vs 59
Quality Score
89 vs 87

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProDocker Container
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM16 GB15 GB
GPUApple M2 ProTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.79.3
First chunk610 ms21 ms
TTFT610 ms3.6 s
Load time3.6 s32.0 s
Memory usage7.1 GB1.8 GB
Memory %45%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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