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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 66
Hardware Fit
76 vs 87
Quality Score
69 vs 57

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx granite-3.3-2b-ins…
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 granite-3.3-2b-ins…
Tokens/sec25.018.3
First chunk787 ms541 ms
TTFT30.0 s541 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB4.7 GB
Memory %45%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed
37/50
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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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