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hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q8_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
74 vs 86
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 80

Hardware

hermes3:8b qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hermes3:8b qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
Tokens/sec22.337.7
First chunk296 ms120 ms
TTFT296 ms120 ms
Load time0.8 s8.3 s
Memory usage10.2 GB8.4 GB
Memory %32%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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