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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 59
Hardware Fit
97 vs 69
Quality Score
79 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4 Pro
Cores2414
RAM47 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec208.030.5
First chunk82 ms333 ms
TTFT1.3 s30.0 s
Load time1.5 s9.8 s
Memory usage9.6 GB25.1 GB
Memory %20%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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