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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 47
Hardware Fit
61 vs 67
Quality Score
55 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec30.318.7
First chunk205 msN/A
TTFT8.7 s12.1 s
Load time5.6 s1.2 s
Memory usage18.8 GB9.5 GB
Memory %15%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
30/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
8/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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