gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 70

Hardware Fit

59 vs 93

Quality Score

84 vs 60

Hardware

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Air

CPUCortex-X925Apple M4

Cores2010

RAM122 GB32 GB

GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

gemma4:12b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Tokens/sec26.832.9

First chunk632 ms3096 ms

TTFT30.0 s3.1 s

Load time5.4 sN/A

Memory usage9.3 GB2.5 GB

Memory %8%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma4:12b

Speed

29/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gemma4:12b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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