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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 52
Hardware Fit
56 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 31

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

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Tokens/sec5.3257.5
First chunk1624 ms99 ms
TTFT1.6 s99 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB0.3 GB
Memory %50%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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