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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

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
77 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
67 vs 80

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/sec21.423.1
First chunk1006 ms358 ms
TTFT1.0 s358 ms
Load time6.4 s3.6 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
45/50
TTFT
20/20
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
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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