qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

84 vs 36

Hardware Fit

97 vs 53

Quality Score

79 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini

CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4

Cores2410

RAM47 GB24 GB

GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4

OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec208.010.3

First chunk82 ms27 ms

TTFT1.3 s20.7 s

Load time1.5 s15.4 s

Memory usage9.6 GB1.0 GB

Memory %20%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

29/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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