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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 34
Quality Score
75 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:27b
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB24 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 qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec54.04.0
First chunk68 ms1655 ms
TTFT68 ms1.7 s
Load time6.1 s12.9 s
Memory usage5.8 GB21.3 GB
Memory %18%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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