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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 84
Hardware Fit
85 vs 78
Quality Score
78 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M1 Pro
Cores8010
RAM252 GB32 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec65.149.9
First chunk289 ms31 ms
TTFT4.2 s708 ms
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB26.6 GB
Memory %2%83%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
8/30

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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