qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

47 vs 86

Hardware Fit

67 vs 78

Quality Score

38 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b

Tokens/sec18.726.3

First chunkN/A545 ms

TTFT12.1 s545 ms

Load time1.2 s9.5 s

Memory usage9.5 GB8.4 GB

Memory %30%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b

Speed

28/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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