qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

THINKING MODEL ECO MODE

HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation (Intel Xeon® Gold 6230)

252 GB · Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Tested on April 28, 2026 · Submitted by yongjiangshi

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Global Score

80 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

85/100

Quality

78/100

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Hardware

Machine: HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPU: Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores: 80 threads (40 cores)
Frequency: 2.1 GHz
RAM: 252 GB
GPU: TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Arch: x64
Power Mode: low-power

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 65.1
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 289 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 4.2 s
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 4.6 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 5.6 GB (2%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1429
Thinking tokens (est.) Estimated internal reasoning tokens — models with "thinking" generate more tokens: ~1017

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

5/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction following

14/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.18.2
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: HIGH-END
Result hash: a7439d0cc992446d8a4519c3a95422bc92ed09d891812e88423bef5ef5717b54

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 85/100. Overall suitability: EXCELLENT (Global 80/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Adequate, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Warnings

System was in low-power mode during this benchmark.
CPU appears throttled (0.8 GHz current vs 2.1 GHz nominal, 40%).

Bench Environment

Thermal: nominal CPU load: avg 12% (peak 19%)

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