qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

THINKING MODEL ECO MODE

AZW GTR Pro (AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395)

125 GB · Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Tested on March 5, 2026

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Global Score

57 /100

Marginal

Hardware Fit

61/100

Quality

55/100

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Hardware

Machine: AZW GTR Pro
CPU: AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores: 32 threads (16 cores)
Frequency: 3 GHz
RAM: 125 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon 8060S
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Arch: x64
Power Mode: low-power

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 30.3
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 205 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 8.7 s
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 5.6 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 18.8 GB (15%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1429
Thinking tokens (est.) Estimated internal reasoning tokens — models with "thinking" generate more tokens: ~711

Score breakdown

Speed

30/50

Time to first token

1/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction following

7/20

Structured output

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: HIGH-END
Result hash: 49b53e7742a5a86202ed26a80537f5c7b8edea5de506ca25cf50958bcef5c5bf

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 61/100. Overall suitability: MARGINAL (Global 57/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Weak, Structured Output: Adequate, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Warnings

System was in low-power mode during this benchmark.
CPU appears throttled (2.2 GHz current vs 3.0 GHz nominal, 73%).

Bench Environment

Thermal: nominal CPU load: avg 4% (peak 4%)

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