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ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
71 vs 80
Hardware Fit
99 vs 52
Quality Score
59 vs 92

Hardware

ministral-3:3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec42.216.1
First chunk189 ms14 ms
TTFT189 ms5.8 s
Load time1.2 s8.5 s
Memory usage7.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %22%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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