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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
80 vs 82
Hardware Fit
85 vs 81
Quality Score
78 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationAZW GTR Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores8032
RAM252 GB125 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Integrated / Apple Silicon
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archx64x64
Power Modelow-powerperformance

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec65.130.8
First chunk289 ms195 ms
TTFT4.2 s195 ms
Load time4.6 s6.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB18.8 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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