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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
75 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec54.030.2
First chunk68 ms499 ms
TTFT68 ms499 ms
Load time6.1 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB6.7 GB
Memory %18%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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