gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

81 vs 69

Hardware Fit

82 vs 50

Quality Score

81 vs 77

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx mistralai/devstral…

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 mistralai/devstral…

Tokens/sec25.35.7

First chunk761 ms5007 ms

TTFT7.7 s5.0 s

Load time3.6 sN/A

Memory usage7.1 GB13.2 GB

Memory %44%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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