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mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
71 vs 84
Hardware Fit
86 vs 99
Quality Score
65 vs 78

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

mistral-nemo:12b nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec14.6109.2
First chunkN/A349 ms
TTFT371 ms349 ms
Load time1.0 s7.8 s
Memory usage13.3 GB2.6 GB
Memory %42%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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