qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

84 vs 66

Hardware Fit

97 vs 91

Quality Score

79 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Pro

CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M5 Max

Cores2418

RAM47 GB64 GB

GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M5 Max

OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 27.0

Archx64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec208.033.2

First chunk82 ms7 ms

TTFT1.3 s311 ms

Load time1.5 sN/A

Memory usage9.6 GB0.5 GB

Memory %20%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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