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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 7, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
89 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 29
Quality Score
87 vs 81

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1480
RAM64 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…
Tokens/sec33.42.4
First chunk257 ms5833 ms
TTFT257 ms5.8 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage4.3 GB135.1 GB
Memory %7%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed
2/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

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

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