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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
71 vs 80
Hardware Fit
56 vs 77
Quality Score
78 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM16 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec5.3129.8
First chunk1624 ms77 ms
TTFT1.6 s30.0 s
Load time4.0 s1.8 s
Memory usage7.9 GB19.7 GB
Memory %50%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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