gemma3:12b

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 68

Hardware Fit

83 vs 100

Quality Score

78 vs 54

Hardware

gemma3:12b granite3.1-dense:2b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b granite3.1-dense:2b

Tokens/sec12.754.6

TTFT560 ms121 ms

Load time2.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage11.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %34%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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