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gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
88 vs 52
Hardware Fit
86 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 32

Hardware

gemma4:12b-it-qat smollm2-360m-instr…
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-it-qat smollm2-360m-instr…
Tokens/sec30.0121.1
First chunk686 ms106 ms
TTFT7.1 s106 ms
Load time5.4 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB0.7 GB
Memory %30%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-it-qat

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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