gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 86

Quality Score

71 vs 65

Hardware

gemma3:4b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:4b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec34.614.6

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT303 ms371 ms

Load time1.2 s1.0 s

Memory usage4.6 GB13.3 GB

Memory %14%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest