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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
86 vs 80
Hardware Fit
79 vs 77
Quality Score
89 vs 81

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB48 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.5129.8
First chunk484 ms77 ms
TTFT484 ms30.0 s
Load time8.2 s1.8 s
Memory usage9.3 GB19.7 GB
Memory %8%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest