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openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
95 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 94
Quality Score
93 vs 65

Hardware

openai/gpt-oss-20b hermes3:8b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

openai/gpt-oss-20b hermes3:8b
Tokens/sec29.322.3
First chunk21 ms296 ms
TTFT1.8 s296 ms
Load time18.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB10.2 GB
Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
30/30

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

hermes3:8b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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