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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 48
Hardware Fit
98 vs 77
Quality Score
71 vs 35

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec41.418.9
First chunk257 ms316 ms
TTFT257 ms13.0 s
Load time5.2 s3.7 s
Memory usage9.0 GB5.9 GB
Memory %38%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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