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nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
93 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
90 vs 65

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano mistral-nemo:12b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nemotron-3-nano mistral-nemo:12b
Tokens/sec93.314.6
First chunk257 msN/A
TTFT257 ms371 ms
Load timeN/A1.0 s
Memory usage0.1 GB13.3 GB
Memory %0%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano

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

mistral-nemo:12b

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

Quality

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
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

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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