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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
89 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 60
Quality Score
87 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1420
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec33.414.7
First chunk257 ms796 ms
TTFT257 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage4.3 GB17.9 GB
Memory %7%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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