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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 74
Hardware Fit
81 vs 92
Quality Score
80 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b dolphin3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b dolphin3:8b
Tokens/sec11.821.0
First chunkN/A314 ms
TTFT523 ms314 ms
Load time2.9 s0.8 s
Memory usage9.1 GB10.4 GB
Memory %28%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

dolphin3:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
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

dolphin3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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