dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

74 vs 58

Hardware Fit

92 vs 82

Quality Score

66 vs 48

Hardware

dolphin3:8b qwen3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b qwen3:14b

Tokens/sec21.024.4

First chunk314 ms294 ms

TTFT314 ms7.9 s

Load time0.8 s3.7 s

Memory usage10.4 GB13.8 GB

Memory %33%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:14b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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