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gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 66
Hardware Fit
88 vs 100
Quality Score
89 vs 51

Hardware

gemma4:12b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec18.585.4
First chunk752 ms115 ms
TTFT752 ms115 ms
Load time6.1 s0.5 s
Memory usage7.5 GB2.6 GB
Memory %47%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

Quality

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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