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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3-vl:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 2.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
84 vs 62
Hardware Fit
82 vs 99
Quality Score
85 vs 46

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl:2b
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-vl:2b
Tokens/sec27.2127.4
First chunk732 ms101 ms
TTFT8.1 s630 ms
Load time3.5 s5.9 s
Memory usage7.1 GB33.2 GB
Memory %44%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
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:2b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
7/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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