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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
89 vs 48
Hardware Fit
95 vs 61
Quality Score
87 vs 42

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-0.8b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores144
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-0.8b
Tokens/sec33.46.2
First chunk257 ms4461 ms
TTFT257 ms4.5 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage4.3 GB0.7 GB
Memory %7%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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