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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 62
Hardware Fit
81 vs 35
Quality Score
82 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.80.0
First chunk195 ms5548 ms
TTFT195 ms5.5 s
Load time6.8 sN/A
Memory usage18.8 GB2.9 GB
Memory %15%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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