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mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 94
Quality Score
33 vs 65

Hardware

mlx-community/Nanb… hermes3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Nanb… hermes3:8b
Tokens/sec25.422.3
First chunk266 ms296 ms
TTFT266 ms296 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB10.2 GB
Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

hermes3:8b

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

Quality

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

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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