ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 36

Hardware Fit

98 vs 53

Quality Score

71 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1210

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec41.410.3

First chunk257 ms27 ms

TTFT257 ms20.7 s

Load time5.2 s15.4 s

Memory usage9.0 GB1.0 GB

Memory %38%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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Speed

23/50

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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