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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 66
Hardware Fit
71 vs 34
Quality Score
72 vs 79

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec19.83.8
First chunk269 ms1637 ms
TTFT269 ms1.6 s
Load time10.7 s17.0 s
Memory usage13.7 GB21.3 GB
Memory %86%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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