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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score
53 vs 71
Hardware Fit
72 vs 42
Quality Score
45 vs 84

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M1 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-4620 0
Cores1064
RAM32 GB256 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.64.0
First chunk403 ms2070 ms
TTFT10.2 s2.1 s
Load time4.3 s44.5 s
Memory usage9.1 GB17.7 GB
Memory %28%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
9/20
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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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