dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

74 vs 90

Hardware Fit

92 vs 98

Quality Score

66 vs 86

Hardware

dolphin3:8b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec21.086.6

First chunk314 ms13 ms

TTFT314 ms143 ms

Load time0.8 sN/A

Memory usage10.4 GB23.9 GB

Memory %33%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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