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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
81 vs 66
Hardware Fit
84 vs 63
Quality Score
79 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec20.435.6
First chunk3034 ms224 ms
TTFT3.0 s7.5 s
Load timeN/A7.7 s
Memory usage5.6 GB4.6 GB
Memory %17%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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