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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
89 vs 78
Hardware Fit
95 vs 86
Quality Score
87 vs 74

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:8b
MachineMac mini—
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1424
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec33.448.5
First chunk257 ms202 ms
TTFT257 ms4.3 s
Load timeN/A4.2 s
Memory usage4.3 GB5.5 GB
Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3:8b

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

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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