gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 74

Hardware Fit

76 vs 66

Quality Score

69 vs 78

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec25.07.9

First chunk787 ms1356 ms

TTFT30.0 s1.4 s

Load time4.0 sN/A

Memory usage7.1 GB13.2 GB

Memory %45%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

26/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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