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hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 45
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 22

Hardware

hermes3:8b stablelm2:1.6b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hermes3:8b stablelm2:1.6b
Tokens/sec22.393.8
First chunk296 msN/A
TTFT296 ms94 ms
Load time0.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage10.2 GB1.1 GB
Memory %32%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hermes3:8b

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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