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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-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
79 vs 90
Hardware Fit
98 vs 100
Quality Score
71 vs 86

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1216
RAM24 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec41.478.1
First chunk257 ms7 ms
TTFT257 ms138 ms
Load time5.2 sN/A
Memory usage9.0 GB23.9 GB
Memory %38%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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