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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
84 vs 82
Hardware Fit
82 vs 81
Quality Score
85 vs 82

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1032
RAM16 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2 ProIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec27.230.8
First chunk732 ms195 ms
TTFT8.1 s195 ms
Load time3.5 s6.8 s
Memory usage7.1 GB18.8 GB
Memory %44%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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