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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 72
Hardware Fit
81 vs 77
Quality Score
82 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b llama3.1:8b
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M1 Pro
Cores3210
RAM125 GB16 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec30.821.5
First chunk195 ms368 ms
TTFT195 ms368 ms
Load time5.2 s6.9 s
Memory usage18.8 GB12.9 GB
Memory %15%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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