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nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
93 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
90 vs 66

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano dolphin3:8b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nemotron-3-nano dolphin3:8b
Tokens/sec93.321.0
First chunk257 ms314 ms
TTFT257 ms314 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage0.1 GB10.4 GB
Memory %0%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano

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

dolphin3:8b

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

Quality

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest