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gemma4:12b-fast

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Nov 13, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
85 vs 85
Hardware Fit
80 vs 95
Quality Score
87 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700Apple M2 Pro
Cores2010
RAM30 GB16 GB
GPUAlder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770], NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M2 Pro
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.5
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec75.947.3
First chunk169 ms258 ms
TTFT30.0 s258 ms
Load time8.4 s5.1 s
Memory usage1.3 GB7.9 GB
Memory %5%49%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-fast

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

gemma4:12b-fast

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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