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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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 68
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
87 vs 54

Hardware

gemma4:12b-fast lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM30 GB32 GB
GPUAlder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770], NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-fast lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec75.977.3
First chunk169 ms177 ms
TTFT30.0 s177 ms
Load time8.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.3 GB1.2 GB
Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-fast

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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