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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
89 vs 61
Hardware Fit
95 vs 85
Quality Score
87 vs 51

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:0.6b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores148
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec33.427.0
First chunk257 ms597 ms
TTFT257 ms8.7 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage4.3 GB0.9 GB
Memory %7%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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