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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
89 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 75
Quality Score
87 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1424
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec33.430.5
First chunk257 ms291 ms
TTFT257 ms291 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage4.3 GB8.8 GB
Memory %7%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

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