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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
89 vs 79
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
87 vs 70

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:1.7b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1412
RAM64 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec33.4191.4
First chunk257 ms70 ms
TTFT257 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A4.6 s
Memory usage4.3 GB1.6 GB
Memory %7%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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