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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 74
Hardware Fit
85 vs 94
Quality Score
78 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3:8b hermes3:8b
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

qwen3:8b hermes3:8b
Tokens/sec65.122.3
First chunk289 ms296 ms
TTFT4.2 s296 ms
Load time4.6 s0.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB10.2 GB
Memory %2%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
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

hermes3:8b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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