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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

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Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

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Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
72 vs 80
Hardware Fit
51 vs 79
Quality Score
81 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec14.455.5
First chunk4 ms528 ms
TTFT824 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A32.6 s
Memory usage48.3 GB41.0 GB
Memory %151%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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