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hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 84
Quality Score
52 vs 79

Hardware

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec26.520.4
First chunk447 ms3034 ms
TTFT447 ms3.0 s
Load time3.3 sN/A
Memory usage4.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %30%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
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
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