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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
48 vs 89
Hardware Fit
77 vs 88
Quality Score
35 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b gemma4:12b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec18.918.4
First chunk316 ms758 ms
TTFT13.0 s758 ms
Load time3.7 s0.3 s
Memory usage5.9 GB7.5 GB
Memory %37%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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