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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
89 vs 82
Hardware Fit
95 vs 93
Quality Score
87 vs 77

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec33.446.8
First chunk257 ms174 ms
TTFT257 ms174 ms
Load timeN/A5.9 s
Memory usage4.3 GB16.2 GB
Memory %7%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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