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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
47 vs 97
Hardware Fit
67 vs 95
Quality Score
38 vs 98

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.779.6
First chunkN/A11 ms
TTFT12.1 s1.7 s
Load time1.2 s7.1 s
Memory usage9.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %30%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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