qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

77 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 72

Quality Score

67 vs 45

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5:9b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M1 Max

Cores610

RAM7 GB32 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M1 Max

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec21.418.6

First chunk1006 ms403 ms

TTFT1.0 s10.2 s

Load time6.4 s4.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.1 GB

Memory %27%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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