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nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
77 vs 66

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… dolphin3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… dolphin3:8b
Tokens/sec47.921.0
First chunk465 ms314 ms
TTFT465 ms314 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage16.6 GB10.4 GB
Memory %52%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

dolphin3:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

dolphin3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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