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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
79 vs 87
Hardware Fit
98 vs 90
Quality Score
71 vs 86

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec41.486.5
First chunk257 ms9 ms
TTFT257 ms175 ms
Load time5.2 sN/A
Memory usage9.0 GB37.9 GB
Memory %38%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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