qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 54

Hardware Fit

72 vs 100

Quality Score

45 vs 34

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b falcon3-1b-instruct

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 falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec18.6121.8

First chunk403 ms176 ms

TTFT10.2 s176 ms

Load time4.3 sN/A

Memory usage9.1 GB0.7 GB

Memory %28%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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