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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

Global Score
86 vs 50
Hardware Fit
78 vs 97
Quality Score
90 vs 30

Hardware

gemma4:12b gemma3:270m
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M3 Pro
Cores2012
RAM122 GB36 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M3 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b gemma3:270m
Tokens/sec26.3239.2
First chunk545 ms127 ms
TTFT545 ms127 ms
Load time9.5 s0.7 s
Memory usage8.4 GB0.6 GB
Memory %7%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

gemma3:270m

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

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

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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