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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 67
Quality Score
75 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec108.320.3
First chunk169 ms4216 ms
TTFT169 ms4.2 s
Load time1.7 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %18%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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