gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 71

Hardware Fit

83 vs 35

Quality Score

78 vs 86

Hardware

gemma3:12b google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec12.75.9

First chunkN/A19 ms

TTFT560 ms1.8 s

Load time2.8 sN/A

Memory usage11.0 GB22.0 GB

Memory %34%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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