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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
76 vs 80
Hardware Fit
89 vs 85
Quality Score
71 vs 78

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM32 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec19.565.1
First chunk328 ms289 ms
TTFT328 ms4.2 s
Load time1.5 s4.6 s
Memory usage10.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %33%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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