nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

84 vs 57

Hardware Fit

100 vs 61

Quality Score

77 vs 55

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec47.930.3

First chunk465 ms205 ms

TTFT465 ms8.7 s

Load timeN/A5.6 s

Memory usage16.6 GB18.8 GB

Memory %52%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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