dolphin3:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 6, 2026

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Global Score

74 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

92/100

Quality

66/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 21.0
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 314 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 314 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.8 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 10.4 GB (33%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 981

Score breakdown

Speed

42/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction following

13/20

Structured output

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.6
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 16768e7b587cfdcf0cf4a249ae6bf2bb4c113d45b9f82d6c9dc293b10ea6cc13

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 92/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 74/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Adequate, Coding: Adequate, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Weak, Multilingual: Strong.

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 10% (peak 14%)

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