qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

53 vs 35

Hardware Fit

72 vs 100

Quality Score

45 vs 7

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b starcoder2:3b

MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M1 MaxCortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec18.631.5

First chunk403 ms392 ms

TTFT10.2 s392 ms

Load time4.3 s4.8 s

Memory usage9.1 GB1.8 GB

Memory %28%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:3b

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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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