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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.1B · Q3_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
81 vs 33
Hardware Fit
84 vs 76
Quality Score
79 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.49.9
First chunk3034 ms3166 ms
TTFT3.0 s3.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %17%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Speed
32/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
28/30

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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