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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
47 vs 70
Hardware Fit
67 vs 66
Quality Score
38 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:35b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:35b
Tokens/sec18.730.6
First chunkN/A304 ms
TTFT12.1 s30.0 s
Load time1.2 s10.0 s
Memory usage9.5 GB28.1 GB
Memory %30%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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