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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 59
Hardware Fit
96 vs 65
Quality Score
80 vs 57

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec88.614.3
First chunk306 ms24 ms
TTFT306 ms13.4 s
Load time7.0 s13.3 s
Memory usage8.1 GB2.5 GB
Memory %25%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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