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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
86 vs 90
Hardware Fit
79 vs 78
Quality Score
89 vs 95

Hardware

gemma4:12b gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M2 Pro
Cores2010
RAM122 GB16 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M2 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.546.1
First chunk484 ms284 ms
TTFT484 ms3.9 s
Load time8.2 s0.1 s
Memory usage9.3 GB10.8 GB
Memory %8%68%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
16/30

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

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