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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 63
Hardware Fit
61 vs 97
Quality Score
55 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b starling-lm:7b
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 starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec30.323.7
First chunk205 msN/A
TTFT8.7 s234 ms
Load time5.6 s0.4 s
Memory usage18.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %15%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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