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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
76 vs 89
Hardware Fit
89 vs 95
Quality Score
71 vs 87

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec19.533.4
First chunk328 ms257 ms
TTFT328 ms257 ms
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage10.6 GB4.3 GB
Memory %33%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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