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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 6, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
89 vs 81
Hardware Fit
95 vs 63
Quality Score
87 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-35b-a3b-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

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Tokens/sec33.417.2
First chunk257 ms845 ms
TTFT257 ms845 ms
Load timeN/A103.1 s
Memory usage4.3 GB21.9 GB
Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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