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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

smollm2:135m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 41
Hardware Fit
72 vs 100
Quality Score
45 vs 15

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b smollm2:135m
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 smollm2:135m
Tokens/sec18.6241.0
First chunk403 msN/A
TTFT10.2 s39 ms
Load time4.3 s0.4 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

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/50
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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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