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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
86 vs 59
Hardware Fit
79 vs 63
Quality Score
89 vs 58

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.518.3
First chunk484 ms4 ms
TTFT484 ms530 ms
Load time8.2 sN/A
Memory usage9.3 GB38.5 GB
Memory %8%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest