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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
91 vs 61
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 44

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx dolphin-phi:2.7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx dolphin-phi:2.7b
Tokens/sec24.756.1
First chunk610 msN/A
TTFT610 ms108 ms
Load time3.6 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.1 GB2.2 GB
Memory %45%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
2/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest