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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
58 vs 81
Hardware Fit
79 vs 96
Quality Score
49 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec22.1109.1
First chunk601 ms190 ms
TTFT9.1 s190 ms
Load time4.2 s4.3 s
Memory usage7.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %45%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3:8b

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

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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