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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Nov 4, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-9700

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
29 vs 81
Hardware Fit
84 vs 68
Quality Score
6 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineVMware, Inc. VMware Virtual PlatformMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i7-9700Apple M4 Max
Cores416
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec10.416.4
First chunk857 ms5 ms
TTFT857 ms742 ms
Load time41.0 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB38.5 GB
Memory %19%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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