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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 66
Hardware Fit
85 vs 34
Quality Score
78 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:27b
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 qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec65.14.0
First chunk289 ms1655 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.7 s
Load time4.6 s12.9 s
Memory usage5.6 GB21.3 GB
Memory %2%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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