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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 89
Hardware Fit
82 vs 95
Quality Score
48 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec24.433.4
First chunk294 ms257 ms
TTFT7.9 s257 ms
Load time3.7 sN/A
Memory usage13.8 GB4.3 GB
Memory %43%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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