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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 62
Hardware Fit
82 vs 35
Quality Score
85 vs 73

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.20.0
First chunk732 ms5548 ms
TTFT8.1 s5.5 s
Load time3.5 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB2.9 GB
Memory %44%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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