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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 57
Hardware Fit
51 vs 98
Quality Score
81 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-coder:6.7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-coder:6.7b
Tokens/sec14.424.1
First chunk4 msN/A
TTFT824 ms251 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage48.3 GB12.6 GB
Memory %151%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

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

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
6/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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