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qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
73 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 76
Quality Score
62 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5:2b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:2b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.425.0
First chunkN/A787 ms
TTFT215 ms30.0 s
Load time1.8 s4.0 s
Memory usage4.5 GB7.1 GB
Memory %14%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest