gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

81 vs 29

Hardware Fit

82 vs 86

Quality Score

81 vs 4

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3:4b

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 qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec25.317.9

First chunk761 ms1010 ms

TTFT7.7 s6.4 s

Load time3.6 s9.5 s

Memory usage7.1 GB3.0 GB

Memory %44%40%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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