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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 50
Hardware Fit
72 vs 97
Quality Score
45 vs 30

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b gemma3:270m
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M3 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB36 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M3 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b gemma3:270m
Tokens/sec18.6239.2
First chunk403 ms127 ms
TTFT10.2 s127 ms
Load time4.3 s0.7 s
Memory usage9.1 GB0.6 GB
Memory %28%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

gemma3:270m

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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