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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
71 vs 80
Hardware Fit
76 vs 98
Quality Score
69 vs 72

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM16 GB47 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
Tokens/sec25.0208.9
First chunk787 ms102 ms
TTFT30.0 s684 ms
Load time4.0 s0.1 s
Memory usage7.1 GB22.0 GB
Memory %45%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3-vl:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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