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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

deepseek-coder:6.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 57
Hardware Fit
82 vs 98
Quality Score
81 vs 39

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx deepseek-coder:6.7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx deepseek-coder:6.7b
Tokens/sec25.324.1
First chunk761 msN/A
TTFT7.7 s251 ms
Load time3.6 s0.9 s
Memory usage7.1 GB12.6 GB
Memory %44%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
6/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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