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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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 84
Hardware Fit
95 vs 91
Quality Score
75 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b
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
Tokens/sec108.330.2
First chunk169 ms499 ms
TTFT169 ms499 ms
Load time1.7 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB6.7 GB
Memory %18%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

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