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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

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
78 vs 80
Hardware Fit
86 vs 83
Quality Score
74 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3:8b gemma3:12b
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 gemma3:12b
Tokens/sec48.512.7
First chunk202 msN/A
TTFT4.3 s560 ms
Load time4.2 s2.8 s
Memory usage5.5 GB11.0 GB
Memory %9%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

gemma3:12b

Speed
23/50
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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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