dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 69

Hardware Fit

92 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 55

Hardware

dolphin3:8b deepseek-v2:16b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b deepseek-v2:16b

Tokens/sec21.056.6

First chunk314 msN/A

TTFT314 ms239 ms

Load time0.8 s1.2 s

Memory usage10.4 GB17.7 GB

Memory %33%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed

40/50

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

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

10/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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