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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 77
Hardware Fit
79 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b yi:6b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b yi:6b
Tokens/sec22.127.6
First chunk601 msN/A
TTFT9.1 s210 ms
Load time4.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.2 GB3.6 GB
Memory %45%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
48/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
26/30

yi:6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

yi:6b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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