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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q8_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
47 vs 86
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
38 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
Tokens/sec18.737.7
First chunkN/A120 ms
TTFT12.1 s120 ms
Load time1.2 s8.3 s
Memory usage9.5 GB8.4 GB
Memory %30%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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