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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
89 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 92
Quality Score
87 vs 54

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac miniiMac
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores148
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec33.419.6
First chunk257 ms690 ms
TTFT257 ms690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage4.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %7%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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