hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

74 vs 63

Hardware Fit

94 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 47

Hardware

hermes3:8b llama3.2:1b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hermes3:8b llama3.2:1b

Tokens/sec22.340.2

First chunk296 ms1087 ms

TTFT296 ms1.1 s

Load time0.8 s6.2 s

Memory usage10.2 GB1.4 GB

Memory %32%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:1b

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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