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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
72 vs 81
Hardware Fit
71 vs 68
Quality Score
72 vs 87

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec19.816.4
First chunk269 ms5 ms
TTFT269 ms742 ms
Load time10.7 sN/A
Memory usage13.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %86%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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