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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
84 vs 85
Hardware Fit
82 vs 96
Quality Score
85 vs 80

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.5Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec27.288.6
First chunk732 ms306 ms
TTFT8.1 s306 ms
Load time3.5 s7.0 s
Memory usage7.1 GB8.1 GB
Memory %44%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.5:9b

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

Quality

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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