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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 66
Hardware Fit
95 vs 34
Quality Score
75 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:27b
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec108.33.8
First chunk169 ms1637 ms
TTFT169 ms1.6 s
Load time1.7 s17.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB21.3 GB
Memory %18%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5:27b

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
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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