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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
80 vs 83
Hardware Fit
85 vs 96
Quality Score
78 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMac Studio
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M2 Max
Cores8012
RAM252 GB96 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M2 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec65.190.6
First chunk289 ms159 ms
TTFT4.2 s159 ms
Load time4.6 s5.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB42.5 GB
Memory %2%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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