ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 73

Hardware Fit

89 vs 100

Quality Score

71 vs 61

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec19.552.3

First chunk328 ms285 ms

TTFT328 ms285 ms

Load time1.5 sN/A

Memory usage10.6 GB1.6 GB

Memory %33%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

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

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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