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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
85 vs 59
Hardware Fit
95 vs 69
Quality Score
80 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec23.130.5
First chunk358 ms333 ms
TTFT358 ms30.0 s
Load time3.6 s9.8 s
Memory usage9.1 GB25.1 GB
Memory %28%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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