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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
74 vs 85
Hardware Fit
92 vs 96
Quality Score
66 vs 80

Hardware

dolphin3:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec21.088.6
First chunk314 ms306 ms
TTFT314 ms306 ms
Load time0.8 s7.0 s
Memory usage10.4 GB8.1 GB
Memory %33%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

dolphin3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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