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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 62
Hardware Fit
85 vs 35
Quality Score
78 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMac mini
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4 Pro
Cores8014
RAM252 GB64 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec65.10.0
First chunk289 ms5548 ms
TTFT4.2 s5.5 s
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB2.9 GB
Memory %2%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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