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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 43
Hardware Fit
92 vs 99
Quality Score
66 vs 19

Hardware

dolphin3:8b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
Tokens/sec21.0344.2
First chunk314 ms173 ms
TTFT314 ms173 ms
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage10.4 GB0.3 GB
Memory %33%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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