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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score

36 vs 80

Hardware Fit

53 vs 85

Quality Score

28 vs 78

Hardware

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MachineMac miniHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Cores1080

RAM24 GB252 GB

GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.365.1

First chunk27 ms289 ms

TTFT20.7 s4.2 s

Load time15.4 s4.6 s

Memory usage1.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %4%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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