hermes3:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

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

94/100

Quality

65/100

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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: 22.3
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: 296 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 296 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: 10.2 GB (32%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 999

Score breakdown

Speed

44/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction following

14/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

5/15

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: fbccd4287b2fd08e838c2c7d9f73522e9ff0c52b636d2fc2550c1e421f6f8bb0

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 94/100. 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 5% (peak 11%)

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