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qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 70
Hardware Fit
67 vs 87
Quality Score
38 vs 59

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec18.737.9
TTFT12.1 s3.1 s
Load time1.2 s1.2 s
Memory usage9.5 GB4.9 GB
Memory %30%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/40
TTFT
6/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
17/30
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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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