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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 68
Hardware Fit
97 vs 91
Quality Score
79 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M1 Pro
Cores2410
RAM47 GB16 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec208.042.2
First chunk82 ms201 ms
TTFT1.3 s4.4 s
Load time1.5 s0.0 s
Memory usage9.6 GB3.8 GB
Memory %20%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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