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nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
78 vs 81

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano:4b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nemotron-3-nano:4b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec31.714.4
First chunk265 ms4 ms
TTFT265 ms824 ms
Load time2.2 sN/A
Memory usage4.1 GB48.3 GB
Memory %25%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano:4b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

Quality

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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
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