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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 74
Hardware Fit
78 vs 92
Quality Score
90 vs 66

Hardware

gemma4:12b dolphin3:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b dolphin3:8b
Tokens/sec26.321.0
First chunk545 ms314 ms
TTFT545 ms314 ms
Load time9.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage8.4 GB10.4 GB
Memory %7%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed
28/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

dolphin3:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
18/20
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

dolphin3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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