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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 52
Hardware Fit
85 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 31

Hardware

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MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Air
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4
Cores8010
RAM252 GB32 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec65.1257.5
First chunk289 ms99 ms
TTFT4.2 s99 ms
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %2%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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