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ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama

OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 43
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
59 vs 19

Hardware

ministral-3:3b tinyllama
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:3b tinyllama
Tokens/sec42.2133.4
First chunk189 ms61 ms
TTFT189 ms61 ms
Load time1.2 s0.5 s
Memory usage7.0 GB0.2 GB
Memory %22%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

tinyllama

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

Quality

ministral-3:3b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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$ metrillm

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