gemma-4-12b-it vs Qwen3.5-9B on shared benchmarks: Qwen is overall winner beating gemma in 5/8 benchmarks despite a smaller footprint

In three linesBenchmark comparison Gemma-4-12B vs Qwen3.5-9B: Qwen wins 5/8 tests despite smaller footprint, lighter KV cache. Gemma-4 slightly better at coding, but Omnicoder-9B (Qwen3.5-9B coding fine-tune) offers competitive alternative.

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