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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 91
Hardware Fit
72 vs 99
Quality Score
45 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M1 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec18.656.2
First chunk403 ms531 ms
TTFT10.2 s531 ms
Load time4.3 s32.8 s
Memory usage9.1 GB41.0 GB
Memory %28%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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