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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 79
Hardware Fit
91 vs 98
Quality Score
81 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b ministral-3:8b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1412
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec30.241.4
First chunk499 ms257 ms
TTFT499 ms257 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage6.7 GB9.0 GB
Memory %11%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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