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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
79 vs 62
Hardware Fit
98 vs 35
Quality Score
71 vs 73

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec41.40.0
First chunk257 ms5548 ms
TTFT257 ms5.5 s
Load time5.2 sN/A
Memory usage9.0 GB2.9 GB
Memory %38%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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