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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
81 vs 61
Hardware Fit
82 vs 85
Quality Score
81 vs 51

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M2 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM16 GB23 GB
GPUApple M2 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.5Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec25.327.0
First chunk761 ms597 ms
TTFT7.7 s8.7 s
Load time3.6 s1.8 s
Memory usage7.1 GB0.9 GB
Memory %44%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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