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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
84 vs 79
Hardware Fit
91 vs 59
Quality Score
81 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1416
RAM64 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4 ProTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec30.29.3
First chunk499 ms21 ms
TTFT499 ms3.6 s
Load timeN/A32.0 s
Memory usage6.7 GB1.8 GB
Memory %11%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest