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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 84
Hardware Fit
82 vs 94
Quality Score
85 vs 80

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.225.0
First chunk732 ms357 ms
TTFT8.1 s357 ms
Load time3.5 s3.8 s
Memory usage7.1 GB8.4 GB
Memory %44%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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