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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 70
Hardware Fit
51 vs 66
Quality Score
81 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6:35b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.6:35b
Tokens/sec14.430.6
First chunk4 ms304 ms
TTFT824 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A10.0 s
Memory usage48.3 GB28.1 GB
Memory %151%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

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

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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