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qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 79
Hardware Fit
96 vs 98
Quality Score
51 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… ministral-3:8b
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1212
RAM96 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec99.641.4
First chunk18 ms257 ms
TTFT1.6 s257 ms
Load time4.8 s5.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB9.0 GB
Memory %0%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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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