qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

57 vs 36

Hardware Fit

61 vs 53

Quality Score

55 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini

CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4

Cores3210

RAM125 GB24 GB

GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec30.310.3

First chunk205 ms27 ms

TTFT8.7 s20.7 s

Load time5.6 s15.4 s

Memory usage18.8 GB1.0 GB

Memory %15%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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