qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

47 vs 22

Hardware Fit

67 vs 69

Quality Score

38 vs 2

Hardware

qwen3:8b deepseek-r1:latest

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b deepseek-r1:latest

Tokens/sec18.79.6

First chunkN/A1300 ms

TTFT12.1 s1.3 s

Load time1.2 s19.9 s

Memory usage9.5 GB4.8 GB

Memory %30%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

18/30

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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