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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
79 vs 82
Hardware Fit
98 vs 80
Quality Score
71 vs 83

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1212
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec41.455.2
First chunk257 ms4 ms
TTFT257 ms30.0 s
Load time5.2 sN/A
Memory usage9.0 GB30.3 GB
Memory %38%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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