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hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
74 vs 57
Hardware Fit
94 vs 61
Quality Score
65 vs 55

Hardware

hermes3:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

hermes3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec22.330.3
First chunk296 ms205 ms
TTFT296 ms8.7 s
Load time0.8 s5.6 s
Memory usage10.2 GB18.8 GB
Memory %32%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
30/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hermes3:8b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
8/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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