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OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
19 vs 70

Hardware

tinyllama cogito:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

tinyllama cogito:8b
Tokens/sec133.421.0
First chunk61 ms312 ms
TTFT61 ms312 ms
Load time0.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage0.2 GB10.4 GB
Memory %1%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

tinyllama

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

cogito:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

cogito:8b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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