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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
85 vs 36
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec88.655.2
First chunk306 ms210 ms
TTFT306 ms210 ms
Load time7.0 s4.8 s
Memory usage8.1 GB0.9 GB
Memory %25%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen36-distill-apex

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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