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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

tinyllama

OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 43
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 19

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b tinyllama
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b tinyllama
Tokens/sec23.1133.4
First chunk358 ms61 ms
TTFT358 ms61 ms
Load time3.6 s0.5 s
Memory usage9.1 GB0.2 GB
Memory %28%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

tinyllama

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

Quality

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

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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