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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
79 vs 88
Hardware Fit
98 vs 86
Quality Score
71 vs 89

Hardware

ministral-3:8b gemma4:12b-it-qat
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1212
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b gemma4:12b-it-qat
Tokens/sec41.430.0
First chunk257 ms686 ms
TTFT257 ms7.1 s
Load time5.2 s5.4 s
Memory usage9.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %38%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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