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gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-1b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma3 · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
80 vs 59
Hardware Fit
83 vs 76
Quality Score
78 vs 52

Hardware

gemma3:12b gemma-3-1b-it
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b gemma-3-1b-it
Tokens/sec12.78.7
First chunkN/A2078 ms
TTFT560 ms2.1 s
Load time2.8 sN/A
Memory usage11.0 GB0.8 GB
Memory %34%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma-3-1b-it

Speed
29/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
28/30

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

gemma-3-1b-it

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest