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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 80
Hardware Fit
82 vs 88
Quality Score
85 vs 76

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec27.216.6
First chunk732 msN/A
TTFT8.1 s369 ms
Load time3.5 s1.5 s
Memory usage7.1 GB6.5 GB
Memory %44%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
28/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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