qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

53 vs 77

Hardware Fit

72 vs 100

Quality Score

45 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.654.3

First chunk403 ms277 ms

TTFT10.2 s277 ms

Load time4.3 sN/A

Memory usage9.1 GB4.2 GB

Memory %28%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

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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

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Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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