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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
81 vs 65
Hardware Fit
82 vs 73
Quality Score
81 vs 62

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM16 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2 ProAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.5Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec25.345.7
First chunk761 ms180 ms
TTFT7.7 s30.0 s
Load time3.6 s5.3 s
Memory usage7.1 GB16.2 GB
Memory %44%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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