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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 59
Hardware Fit
82 vs 65
Quality Score
81 vs 57

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec25.314.3
First chunk761 ms24 ms
TTFT7.7 s13.4 s
Load time3.6 s13.3 s
Memory usage7.1 GB2.5 GB
Memory %44%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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