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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
81 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 77
Quality Score
75 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec108.3129.8
First chunk169 ms77 ms
TTFT169 ms30.0 s
Load time1.7 s1.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB19.7 GB
Memory %18%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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