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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 65
Hardware Fit
79 vs 99
Quality Score
49 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:0.8b
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 qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec22.148.2
First chunk601 msN/A
TTFT9.1 s195 ms
Load time4.2 s1.0 s
Memory usage7.2 GB2.5 GB
Memory %45%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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