gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

33 vs 71

Hardware Fit

50 vs 86

Quality Score

25 vs 65

Hardware

gemma4:26b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:26b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec20.014.6

First chunk941 msN/A

TTFT30.0 s371 ms

Load time0.2 s1.0 s

Memory usage20.3 GB13.3 GB

Memory %85%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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