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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
84 vs 48
Hardware Fit
82 vs 61
Quality Score
85 vs 42

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-0.8b
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

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-0.8b
Tokens/sec27.26.2
First chunk732 ms4461 ms
TTFT8.1 s4.5 s
Load time3.5 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB0.7 GB
Memory %44%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

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