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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

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
82 vs 36
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
82 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec30.855.2
First chunk195 ms210 ms
TTFT195 ms210 ms
Load time6.8 s4.8 s
Memory usage18.8 GB0.9 GB
Memory %15%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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