hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 34

Hardware Fit

94 vs 21

Quality Score

65 vs 39

Hardware

hermes3:8b qwen3.5-27b-claude…

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/sec22.36.1

First chunk296 ms7 ms

TTFT296 ms22.9 s

Load time0.8 sN/A

Memory usage10.2 GB19.8 GB

Memory %32%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

8/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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