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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama2:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 56
Hardware Fit
98 vs 84
Quality Score
71 vs 44

Hardware

ministral-3:8b llama2:13b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b llama2:13b
Tokens/sec41.413.5
First chunk257 msN/A
TTFT257 ms415 ms
Load time5.2 s0.6 s
Memory usage9.0 GB10.3 GB
Memory %38%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

llama2:13b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
30/20
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

llama2:13b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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