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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
84 vs 62
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
85 vs 46

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M2 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
Tokens/sec27.267.8
First chunk732 ms62 ms
TTFT8.1 s64 ms
Load time3.5 s0.0 s
Memory usage7.1 GB0.0 GB
Memory %44%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
1/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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