qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 36

Hardware Fit

95 vs 53

Quality Score

80 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.110.3

First chunk358 ms27 ms

TTFT358 ms20.7 s

Load time3.6 s15.4 s

Memory usage9.1 GB1.0 GB

Memory %28%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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