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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
97 vs 67
Quality Score
79 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4 Pro
Cores2414
RAM47 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec208.020.3
First chunk82 ms4216 ms
TTFT1.3 s4.2 s
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage9.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %20%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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