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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
78 vs 81
Hardware Fit
86 vs 68
Quality Score
74 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Machine—MacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorApple M4 Max
Cores2416
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiApple M4 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec48.516.4
First chunk202 ms5 ms
TTFT4.3 s742 ms
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage5.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %9%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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