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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 66
Hardware Fit
78 vs 34
Quality Score
90 vs 80

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5:27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB24 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec26.34.0
First chunk545 ms1655 ms
TTFT545 ms1.7 s
Load time9.5 s12.9 s
Memory usage8.4 GB21.3 GB
Memory %7%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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