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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
80 vs 48
Hardware Fit
85 vs 63
Quality Score
78 vs 41

Hardware

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MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores804
RAM252 GB16 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archx64x64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec65.16.6
First chunk289 ms3184 ms
TTFT4.2 s3.2 s
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %2%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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