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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
75 vs 89
Hardware Fit
67 vs 88
Quality Score
79 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec4.418.5
First chunkN/A752 ms
TTFT1.1 s752 ms
Load time13.2 s6.1 s
Memory usage22.7 GB7.5 GB
Memory %71%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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