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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

codellama:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 63
Hardware Fit
95 vs 97
Quality Score
87 vs 49

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b codellama:7b
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 codellama:7b
Tokens/sec33.423.6
First chunk257 msN/A
TTFT257 ms297 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage4.3 GB12.6 GB
Memory %7%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

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

codellama:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
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

codellama:7b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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