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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 70
Hardware Fit
95 vs 66
Quality Score
87 vs 71

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.6:35b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1414
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.6:35b
Tokens/sec33.430.6
First chunk257 ms304 ms
TTFT257 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A10.0 s
Memory usage4.3 GB28.1 GB
Memory %7%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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