qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 47

Hardware Fit

81 vs 67

Quality Score

80 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b

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 qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec11.818.7

TTFT523 ms12.1 s

Load time2.9 s1.2 s

Memory usage9.1 GB9.5 GB

Memory %28%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

21/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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