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gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
71 vs 72
Hardware Fit
76 vs 89
Quality Score
69 vs 64

Hardware

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM16 GB252 GB
GPUApple M1 ProTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

gemma4:12b-mlx qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec25.068.2
First chunk787 ms285 ms
TTFT30.0 s2.0 s
Load time4.0 s42.4 s
Memory usage7.1 GB7.1 GB
Memory %45%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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

qwen3-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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