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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
80 vs 88
Hardware Fit
85 vs 80
Quality Score
78 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4 Max
Cores8016
RAM252 GB128 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec65.176.7
First chunk289 ms29 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB23.9 GB
Memory %2%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

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

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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