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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 72
Hardware Fit
95 vs 99
Quality Score
87 vs 61

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b mlx-community/gemm…
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec33.486.3
First chunk257 ms253 ms
TTFT257 ms253 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage4.3 GB1.1 GB
Memory %7%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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