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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
18 vs 59
Hardware Fit
53 vs 65
Quality Score
3 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4
Cores810
RAM23 GB24 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.414.3
First chunk799 ms24 ms
TTFT30.0 s13.4 s
Load time3.3 s13.3 s
Memory usage1.9 GB2.5 GB
Memory %8%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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