qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 71

Hardware Fit

81 vs 86

Quality Score

80 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b mistral-nemo:12b

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 mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec11.814.6

TTFT523 ms371 ms

Load time2.9 s1.0 s

Memory usage9.1 GB13.3 GB

Memory %28%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

21/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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