ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
76 vs 55
Hardware Fit
89 vs 87
Quality Score
71 vs 41
Hardware
ministral-3:8b 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
ministral-3:8b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.568.2
First chunk328 ms3268 ms
TTFT328 ms3.3 s
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage10.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %33%2%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
ministral-3:8b
Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30
Quality
ministral-3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest