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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 22, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
81 vs 88
Hardware Fit
84 vs 90
Quality Score
79 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec20.442.0
First chunk3034 ms243 ms
TTFT3.0 s243 ms
Load timeN/A9.7 s
Memory usage5.6 GB32.1 GB
Memory %17%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
40/50
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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