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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 55
Hardware Fit
56 vs 87
Quality Score
78 vs 41

Hardware

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MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec5.368.2
First chunk1624 ms3268 ms
TTFT1.6 s3.3 s
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB0.6 GB
Memory %50%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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