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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 68
Hardware Fit
89 vs 86
Quality Score
65 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec28.936.5
First chunk338 ms207 ms
TTFT338 ms6.6 s
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage6.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %10%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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