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dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
74 vs 63
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
66 vs 47

Hardware

dolphin3:8b llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin3:8b llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec21.040.2
First chunk314 ms1087 ms
TTFT314 ms1.1 s
Load time0.8 s6.2 s
Memory usage10.4 GB1.4 GB
Memory %33%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin3:8b

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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