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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/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
78 vs 87
Hardware Fit
86 vs 90
Quality Score
74 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Machine—MacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorApple M5 Max
Cores2418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec48.586.5
First chunk202 ms9 ms
TTFT4.3 s175 ms
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage5.5 GB37.9 GB
Memory %9%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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