gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

86 vs 71

Hardware Fit

80 vs 88

Quality Score

89 vs 63

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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 qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec74.423.1

First chunk152 ms3279 ms

TTFT30.0 s3.3 s

Load time0.0 sN/A

Memory usage0.8 GB2.9 GB

Memory %3%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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