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gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
88 vs 82
Hardware Fit
86 vs 80
Quality Score
89 vs 83

Hardware

gemma4:12b-it-qat qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1212
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-it-qat qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec30.055.2
First chunk686 ms4 ms
TTFT7.1 s30.0 s
Load time5.4 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB30.3 GB
Memory %30%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-it-qat

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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