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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

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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
78 vs 96
Hardware Fit
86 vs 95
Quality Score
74 vs 96

Hardware

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MachineMacBook 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

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Tokens/sec48.5112.8
First chunk202 ms21 ms
TTFT4.3 s1.5 s
Load time4.2 s3.5 s
Memory usage5.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %9%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
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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