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mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
71 vs 87
Hardware Fit
86 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 81

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b qwen3-vl-4b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral-nemo:12b qwen3-vl-4b-instruct
Tokens/sec14.672.0
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT371 ms176 ms
Load time1.0 s6.7 s
Memory usage13.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %42%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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