gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 34

Hardware Fit

83 vs 58

Quality Score

78 vs 23

Hardware

gemma3:12b qwen3.5:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b qwen3.5:latest

Tokens/sec12.713.3

First chunkN/A438 ms

TTFT560 ms19.8 s

Load time2.8 s0.2 s

Memory usage11.0 GB8.0 GB

Memory %34%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

Quality

gemma3:12b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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