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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
83 vs 97
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
75 vs 98

Hardware

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MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMac Studio
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M2 Max
Cores2012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M2 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.079.6
First chunk68 ms11 ms
TTFT68 ms1.7 s
Load time6.1 s7.1 s
Memory usage5.8 GB0.0 GB
Memory %18%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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