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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 59
Hardware Fit
81 vs 65
Quality Score
82 vs 57

Hardware

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MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB24 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec30.814.3
First chunk195 ms24 ms
TTFT195 ms13.4 s
Load time5.2 s13.3 s
Memory usage18.8 GB2.5 GB
Memory %15%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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