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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
81 vs 73
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 61

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen2.5-coder:3b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen2.5-coder:3b
Tokens/sec20.421.3
First chunk3034 ms969 ms
TTFT3.0 s969 ms
Load timeN/A6.6 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.0 GB
Memory %17%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen2.5-coder:3b

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

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

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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