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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 65
Hardware Fit
56 vs 99
Quality Score
78 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
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 smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec5.328.5
First chunk1624 ms393 ms
TTFT1.6 s393 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB3.2 GB
Memory %50%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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