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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
97 vs 92
Quality Score
79 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3:8b cogito:8b
MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4
Cores2410
RAM47 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b cogito:8b
Tokens/sec208.021.0
First chunk82 ms312 ms
TTFT1.3 s312 ms
Load time1.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage9.6 GB10.4 GB
Memory %20%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

cogito:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
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

cogito:8b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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