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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
85 vs 58
Hardware Fit
95 vs 82
Quality Score
80 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec23.124.4
First chunk358 ms294 ms
TTFT358 ms7.9 s
Load time3.6 s3.7 s
Memory usage9.1 GB13.8 GB
Memory %28%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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