llama3.2:3b

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

78 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

63/100

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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: 44.1
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.5
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 178 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: 7.0 GB (22%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1112

Score breakdown

Speed

40/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction following

14/20

Structured output

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 04bda936c23358b11852e3ecc13933f7d5c7344a99b1139a6a7ed62853ab7959

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 100/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 78/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Adequate, Coding: Adequate, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Poor, Multilingual: Strong.

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