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hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 60
Hardware Fit
94 vs 96
Quality Score
65 vs 44

Hardware

hermes3:8b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hermes3:8b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.3108.0
First chunk296 ms2568 ms
TTFT296 ms2.6 s
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage10.2 GB1.0 GB
Memory %32%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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