qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

smollm2:360m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 52

Hardware Fit

89 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 32

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b smollm2:360m

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec28.9117.9

First chunk338 msN/A

TTFT338 ms43 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage6.1 GB1.2 GB

Memory %10%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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