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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
81 vs 84
Hardware Fit
84 vs 94
Quality Score
79 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec20.486.3
First chunk3034 ms316 ms
TTFT3.0 s316 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB8.1 GB
Memory %17%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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