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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 50
Hardware Fit
89 vs 97
Quality Score
65 vs 30

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b gemma3:270m
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M3 Pro
Cores1412
RAM64 GB36 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M3 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b gemma3:270m
Tokens/sec28.9239.2
First chunk338 ms127 ms
TTFT338 ms127 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage6.1 GB0.6 GB
Memory %10%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

gemma3:270m

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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