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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 73
Hardware Fit
92 vs 64
Quality Score
66 vs 77

Hardware

dolphin3:8b mistralai/devstral…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b mistralai/devstral…
Tokens/sec21.011.9
First chunk314 ms7 ms
TTFT314 ms1.1 s
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage10.4 GB19.7 GB
Memory %33%62%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
19/30

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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