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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
79 vs 53
Hardware Fit
98 vs 72
Quality Score
71 vs 45

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Max
Cores1210
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec41.418.6
First chunk257 ms403 ms
TTFT257 ms10.2 s
Load time5.2 s4.3 s
Memory usage9.0 GB9.1 GB
Memory %38%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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