qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 43

Hardware Fit

81 vs 100

Quality Score

80 vs 19

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b tinyllama:1.1b

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 tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec11.8121.0

TTFT523 ms82 ms

Load time2.9 s0.4 s

Memory usage9.1 GB0.7 GB

Memory %28%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

21/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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