qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

89 vs 87

Hardware Fit

95 vs 83

Quality Score

87 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b gpt-oss:20b

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b gpt-oss:20b

Tokens/sec33.424.3

First chunk257 ms529 ms

TTFT257 ms4.5 s

Load timeN/A11.2 s

Memory usage4.3 GB13.1 GB

Memory %7%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gpt-oss:20b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

23/30

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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