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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
72 vs 81
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b llama3.1:8b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1416
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec28.970.2
First chunk338 ms58 ms
TTFT338 ms58 ms
Load timeN/A4.1 s
Memory usage6.1 GB4.9 GB
Memory %10%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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