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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

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 64
Hardware Fit
56 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b smollm2:1.7b
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
Tokens/sec5.351.8
First chunk1624 msN/A
TTFT1.6 s84 ms
Load time4.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.9 GB3.7 GB
Memory %50%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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