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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 94
Quality Score
87 vs 52

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b hf.co/bartowski/ai…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b hf.co/bartowski/ai…
Tokens/sec33.429.6
First chunk257 ms264 ms
TTFT257 ms264 ms
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage4.3 GB8.4 GB
Memory %7%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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