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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 75
Hardware Fit
82 vs 54
Quality Score
85 vs 84

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec27.26.6
First chunk732 ms4364 ms
TTFT8.1 s4.4 s
Load time3.5 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB15.0 GB
Memory %44%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
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

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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