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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
84 vs 87
Hardware Fit
97 vs 83
Quality Score
79 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4 Max
Cores2416
RAM47 GB128 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec208.029.1
First chunk82 ms9 ms
TTFT1.3 s650 ms
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage9.6 GB21.0 GB
Memory %20%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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