ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

71 vs 89

Hardware Fit

99 vs 95

Quality Score

59 vs 87

Hardware

ministral-3:3b qwen/qwen3-8b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:3b qwen/qwen3-8b

Tokens/sec42.233.4

First chunk189 ms257 ms

TTFT189 ms257 ms

Load time1.2 sN/A

Memory usage7.0 GB4.3 GB

Memory %22%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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