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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

aya:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · F16

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 66
Hardware Fit
72 vs 92
Quality Score
45 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b aya:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b aya:8b
Tokens/sec18.620.0
First chunk403 msN/A
TTFT10.2 s300 ms
Load time4.3 s0.9 s
Memory usage9.1 GB6.0 GB
Memory %28%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

aya:8b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

aya:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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