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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
76 vs 37
Hardware Fit
89 vs 73
Quality Score
71 vs 22

Hardware

ministral-3:8b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

ministral-3:8b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec19.518.4
First chunk328 ms593 ms
TTFT328 ms30.0 s
Load time1.5 s3.8 s
Memory usage10.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %33%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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