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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 20
Hardware Fit
97 vs 34
Quality Score
79 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:27b
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4 Pro
Cores2412
RAM47 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec208.010.6
First chunk82 ms1344 ms
TTFT1.3 s30.0 s
Load time1.5 s0.2 s
Memory usage9.6 GB18.1 GB
Memory %20%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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