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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
79 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec41.432.9
First chunk162 ms3096 ms
TTFT162 ms3.1 s
Load time8.1 sN/A
Memory usage5.9 GB2.5 GB
Memory %19%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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