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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 47
Hardware Fit
82 vs 67
Quality Score
48 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec24.418.7
First chunk294 msN/A
TTFT7.9 s12.1 s
Load time3.7 s1.2 s
Memory usage13.8 GB9.5 GB
Memory %43%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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