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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
74 vs 84
Hardware Fit
92 vs 97
Quality Score
66 vs 79

Hardware

dolphin3:8b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec21.0208.0
First chunk314 ms82 ms
TTFT314 ms1.3 s
Load time0.8 s1.5 s
Memory usage10.4 GB9.6 GB
Memory %33%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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