qwen3.5:0.8b

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

70 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

99/100

Quality

51/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 48.2
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.4
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 195 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 1.0 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 2.5 GB (8%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1078

Score breakdown

Speed

40/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

29/30

Quality

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction following

11/20

Structured output

13/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: da8f2957532862dd23153d651f2c39851e5f51c80a0cba5b65e2c34129e0e077

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 99/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 70/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Weak, Coding: Weak, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Weak, Multilingual: Adequate.

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