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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 89
Hardware Fit
94 vs 95
Quality Score
80 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec86.333.4
First chunk316 ms257 ms
TTFT316 ms257 ms
Load time0.3 sN/A
Memory usage8.1 GB4.3 GB
Memory %25%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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