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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
84 vs 95
Hardware Fit
97 vs 94
Quality Score
79 vs 96

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac Studio
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M2 Max
Cores2412
RAM47 GB96 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M2 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec208.080.4
First chunk82 ms46 ms
TTFT1.3 s1.8 s
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage9.6 GB21.2 GB
Memory %20%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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