gemma3:12b

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 38

Hardware Fit

83 vs 64

Quality Score

78 vs 21

Hardware

gemma3:12b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:12b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec12.721.7

TTFT560 ms11.9 s

Load time2.8 s3.5 s

Memory usage11.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %34%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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