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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
75 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec54.023.1
First chunk68 ms3279 ms
TTFT68 ms3.3 s
Load time6.1 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB2.9 GB
Memory %18%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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