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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
74 vs 66
Hardware Fit
92 vs 63
Quality Score
66 vs 67

Hardware

dolphin3:8b deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

dolphin3:8b deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec21.035.6
First chunk314 ms224 ms
TTFT314 ms7.5 s
Load time0.8 s7.7 s
Memory usage10.4 GB4.6 GB
Memory %33%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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