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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
84 vs 93
Hardware Fit
82 vs 87
Quality Score
85 vs 95

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM16 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec27.260.5
First chunk732 ms527 ms
TTFT8.1 s3.1 s
Load time3.5 s14.0 s
Memory usage7.1 GB12.0 GB
Memory %44%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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