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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
71 vs 87
Hardware Fit
56 vs 90
Quality Score
78 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec5.386.5
First chunk1624 ms9 ms
TTFT1.6 s175 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB37.9 GB
Memory %50%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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