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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
79 vs 77
Hardware Fit
98 vs 59
Quality Score
71 vs 84

Hardware

ministral-3:8b gemma4:12b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1220
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

ministral-3:8b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec41.426.8
First chunk257 ms632 ms
TTFT257 ms30.0 s
Load time5.2 s5.4 s
Memory usage9.0 GB9.3 GB
Memory %38%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
0/20
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

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

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