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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
82 vs 74
Quality Score
85 vs 78

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx phi4:14b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM16 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx phi4:14b
Tokens/sec27.222.9
First chunk732 ms198 ms
TTFT8.1 s198 ms
Load time3.5 s10.3 s
Memory usage7.1 GB14.7 GB
Memory %44%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

phi4:14b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
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

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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