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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-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
53 vs 95
Hardware Fit
72 vs 94
Quality Score
45 vs 96

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.680.4
First chunk403 ms46 ms
TTFT10.2 s1.8 s
Load time4.3 sN/A
Memory usage9.1 GB21.2 GB
Memory %28%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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