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gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 38
Hardware Fit
83 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 12

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec12.744.0
First chunkN/A384 ms
TTFT560 ms385 ms
Load time2.8 sN/A
Memory usage11.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %34%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

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

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed
50/50
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

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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