hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 36

Hardware Fit

94 vs 53

Quality Score

65 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.310.3

First chunk296 ms27 ms

TTFT296 ms20.7 s

Load time0.8 s15.4 s

Memory usage10.2 GB1.0 GB

Memory %32%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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