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mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 47
Hardware Fit
99 vs 67
Quality Score
33 vs 38

Hardware

mlx-community/Nanb… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Nanb… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec25.418.7
First chunk266 msN/A
TTFT266 ms12.1 s
Load timeN/A1.2 s
Memory usage0.0 GB9.5 GB
Memory %0%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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