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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 71
Hardware Fit
85 vs 76
Quality Score
78 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M1 Pro
Cores8010
RAM252 GB16 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec65.125.0
First chunk289 ms787 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load time4.6 s4.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB7.1 GB
Memory %2%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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