qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

50 vs 39

Hardware Fit

67 vs 66

Quality Score

38 vs 21

Hardware

qwen3:8b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec18.721.8

TTFT12.1 s9.6 s

Load time1.2 s3.5 s

Memory usage9.5 GB0.0 GB

Memory %30%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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