qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 76

Hardware Fit

53 vs 89

Quality Score

45 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3:4b ministral-3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b ministral-3:8b

Tokens/sec11.319.5

First chunkN/A328 ms

TTFT9.2 s328 ms

Load time0.1 s1.5 s

Memory usage7.2 GB10.6 GB

Memory %23%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

ministral-3:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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