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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
80 vs 95
Hardware Fit
85 vs 94
Quality Score
78 vs 96

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec65.180.4
First chunk289 ms46 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.8 s
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB21.2 GB
Memory %2%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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