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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 55
Hardware Fit
78 vs 87
Quality Score
90 vs 41

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec26.368.2
First chunk545 ms3268 ms
TTFT545 ms3.3 s
Load time9.5 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB0.6 GB
Memory %7%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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