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mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 33
Hardware Fit
86 vs 50
Quality Score
65 vs 25

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b gemma4:26b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral-nemo:12b gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec14.620.0
First chunkN/A941 ms
TTFT371 ms30.0 s
Load time1.0 s0.2 s
Memory usage13.3 GB20.3 GB
Memory %42%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

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

gemma4:26b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
8/30

Quality

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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