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qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 47
Hardware Fit
96 vs 67
Quality Score
86 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec89.918.7
First chunk188 msN/A
TTFT188 ms12.1 s
Load time4.0 s1.2 s
Memory usage30.2 GB9.5 GB
Memory %47%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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