gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

86 vs 71

Hardware Fit

78 vs 88

Quality Score

90 vs 63

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-4b-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 qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec26.323.1

First chunk545 ms3279 ms

TTFT545 ms3.3 s

Load time9.5 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB2.9 GB

Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed

28/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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