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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 12B · Q4_0

Good

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

Global Score
84 vs 74
Hardware Fit
82 vs 46
Quality Score
85 vs 86

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx google/gemma-4-12b…
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 google/gemma-4-12b…
Tokens/sec27.25.0
First chunk732 ms64 ms
TTFT8.1 s5.5 s
Load time3.5 s9.5 s
Memory usage7.1 GB0.0 GB
Memory %44%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

Speed
9/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
30/30

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

google/gemma-4-12b-it-qat

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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