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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
81 vs 22
Hardware Fit
82 vs 69
Quality Score
81 vs 2

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M2 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM16 GB7 GB
GPUApple M2 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec25.39.6
First chunk761 ms1300 ms
TTFT7.7 s1.3 s
Load time3.6 s19.9 s
Memory usage7.1 GB4.8 GB
Memory %44%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

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-r1:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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