qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 68

Hardware Fit

72 vs 98

Quality Score

45 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b gemma3:1b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5:9b gemma3:1b

Tokens/sec18.639.5

First chunk403 msN/A

TTFT10.2 s333 ms

Load time4.3 s1.6 s

Memory usage9.1 GB1.3 GB

Memory %28%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:1b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

28/30

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

12/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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