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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
72 vs 83
Hardware Fit
71 vs 96
Quality Score
72 vs 78

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec19.891.2
First chunk269 ms150 ms
TTFT269 ms150 ms
Load time10.7 s5.3 s
Memory usage13.7 GB42.5 GB
Memory %86%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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