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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
72 vs 81
Hardware Fit
89 vs 95
Quality Score
65 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3:8b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1420
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec28.9108.3
First chunk338 ms169 ms
TTFT338 ms169 ms
Load timeN/A1.7 s
Memory usage6.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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