gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

84 vs 20

Hardware Fit

82 vs 37

Quality Score

85 vs 12

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:27b

MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M2 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM16 GB125 GB

GPUApple M2 ProAMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec27.210.6

First chunk732 ms358 ms

TTFT8.1 s13.7 s

Load time3.5 s10.8 s

Memory usage7.1 GB39.7 GB

Memory %44%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

9/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

28/30

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

2/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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