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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
75 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3:8b mistral-nemo:12b
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b mistral-nemo:12b
Tokens/sec54.014.6
First chunk68 msN/A
TTFT68 ms371 ms
Load time6.1 s1.0 s
Memory usage5.8 GB13.3 GB
Memory %18%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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