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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
84 vs 13
Hardware Fit
82 vs 41
Quality Score
85 vs 1

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM16 GB23 GB
GPUApple M2 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.5Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
Tokens/sec27.24.5
First chunk732 ms1413 ms
TTFT8.1 s31.1 s
Load time3.5 s7.1 s
Memory usage7.1 GB3.8 GB
Memory %44%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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