gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

46 vs 71

Hardware Fit

93 vs 86

Quality Score

26 vs 65

Hardware

gemma3:4b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB32 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:4b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec14.914.6

First chunk2204 msN/A

TTFT2.2 s371 ms

Load time2.0 s1.0 s

Memory usage2.6 GB13.3 GB

Memory %35%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

29/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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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