text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 72

Hardware Fit

94 vs 89

Quality Score

44 vs 65

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/sec45.319.7

First chunk2440 ms350 ms

TTFT2.4 s350 ms

Load timeN/A0.9 s

Memory usage0.0 GB6.2 GB

Memory %0%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

Memory

29/30

aya-expanse:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest