dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 68

Hardware Fit

92 vs 87

Quality Score

66 vs 60

Hardware

dolphin3:8b nous-hermes2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec21.015.9

First chunk314 msN/A

TTFT314 ms345 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.4 GB6.6 GB

Memory %33%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/50

TTFT

30/20

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest