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qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
72 vs 53
Hardware Fit
89 vs 72
Quality Score
64 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3-vl:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M1 Max
Cores8010
RAM252 GB32 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M1 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec68.218.6
First chunk285 ms403 ms
TTFT2.0 s10.2 s
Load time42.4 s4.3 s
Memory usage7.1 GB9.1 GB
Memory %3%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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