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mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
29 vs 71

Hardware

mlx-community/stab… ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/stab… ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec93.619.5
First chunk166 ms328 ms
TTFT166 ms328 ms
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage0.7 GB10.6 GB
Memory %2%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/stablelm-…

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest