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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 65
Hardware Fit
97 vs 99
Quality Score
79 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4
Cores2410
RAM47 GB32 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/sec208.028.5
First chunk82 ms393 ms
TTFT1.3 s393 ms
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage9.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %20%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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