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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
52 vs 81

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/sec26.514.4
First chunk447 ms4 ms
TTFT447 ms824 ms
Load time3.3 sN/A
Memory usage4.8 GB48.3 GB
Memory %30%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

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
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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