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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

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

cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 77
Hardware Fit
80 vs 92
Quality Score
89 vs 70

Hardware

gemma4:12b cogito:8b
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 cogito:8b
Tokens/sec74.421.0
First chunk152 ms312 ms
TTFT30.0 s312 ms
Load time0.0 s0.8 s
Memory usage0.8 GB10.4 GB
Memory %3%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

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

cogito:8b

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

Quality

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

cogito:8b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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