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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

aya:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · F16

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 66
Hardware Fit
91 vs 92
Quality Score
81 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b aya:8b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b aya:8b
Tokens/sec30.220.0
First chunk499 msN/A
TTFT499 ms300 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage6.7 GB6.0 GB
Memory %11%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

aya:8b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

aya:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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