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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
86 vs 65
Hardware Fit
78 vs 88
Quality Score
90 vs 55

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec26.348.9
First chunk545 ms4208 ms
TTFT545 ms4.2 s
Load time9.5 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB1.6 GB
Memory %7%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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