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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 67

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec208.054.3
First chunk82 ms277 ms
TTFT1.3 s277 ms
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage9.6 GB4.2 GB
Memory %20%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed
50/50
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

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Reasoning
11/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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