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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 20
Hardware Fit
85 vs 34
Quality Score
78 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:27b
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMac mini
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4 Pro
Cores8012
RAM252 GB24 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec65.110.6
First chunk289 ms1344 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load time4.6 s0.2 s
Memory usage5.6 GB18.1 GB
Memory %2%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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