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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

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
78 vs 80
Hardware Fit
86 vs 81
Quality Score
74 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorApple M4
Cores2410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec48.511.8
First chunk202 msN/A
TTFT4.3 s523 ms
Load time4.2 s2.9 s
Memory usage5.5 GB9.1 GB
Memory %9%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

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