qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 64

Hardware Fit

81 vs 100

Quality Score

80 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b smollm2:1.7b

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 smollm2:1.7b

Tokens/sec11.851.8

TTFT523 ms84 ms

Load time2.9 s0.4 s

Memory usage9.1 GB3.7 GB

Memory %28%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

21/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:1.7b

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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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