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gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 18
Hardware Fit
83 vs 59
Quality Score
78 vs 0

Hardware

gemma3:12b lfm2-24b-a2b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec12.76.6
First chunkN/A1025 ms
TTFT560 ms1.0 s
Load time2.8 sN/A
Memory usage11.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %34%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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