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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 68
Hardware Fit
96 vs 91
Quality Score
75 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec109.142.2
First chunk190 ms201 ms
TTFT190 ms4.4 s
Load time4.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB3.8 GB
Memory %18%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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