dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 22

Hardware Fit

92 vs 50

Quality Score

66 vs 10

Hardware

dolphin3:8b deepseek-r1:14b

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-r1:14b

Tokens/sec21.011.4

First chunk314 msN/A

TTFT314 ms30.0 s

Load time0.8 s1.0 s

Memory usage10.4 GB16.5 GB

Memory %33%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/50

TTFT

0/20

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-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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