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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-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 59
Hardware Fit
85 vs 65
Quality Score
78 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMac mini
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4
Cores8010
RAM252 GB24 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec65.114.3
First chunk289 ms24 ms
TTFT4.2 s13.4 s
Load time4.6 s13.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.5 GB
Memory %2%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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