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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 71
Hardware Fit
96 vs 76
Quality Score
75 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec109.125.0
First chunk190 ms787 ms
TTFT190 ms30.0 s
Load time4.3 s4.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB7.1 GB
Memory %18%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong 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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest