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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
85 vs 81
Hardware Fit
95 vs 95
Quality Score
80 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec23.1108.3
First chunk358 ms169 ms
TTFT358 ms169 ms
Load time3.6 s1.7 s
Memory usage9.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %28%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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