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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
74 vs 81
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
66 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec21.035.6
First chunk314 ms52 ms
TTFT314 ms256 ms
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage10.4 GB8.6 GB
Memory %33%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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