qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Max)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 5, 2026 · Submitted by alph0x

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Global Score

85 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

95/100

Quality

80/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Pro
CPU: Apple M1 Max
Cores: 10 total (8 perf + 2 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M1 Max
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 23.1
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±1.3
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 358 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 358 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 3.6 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 9.1 GB (28%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1017

Score breakdown

Speed

45/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction following

15/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.6
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: db6d59de8f9e24f6a74e1049398512bdd1b8051a191e3fd9c3591ce40fe0a8cd

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 95/100. Overall suitability: EXCELLENT (Global 85/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Adequate, Coding: Strong, Instruction Following: Strong, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Adequate, Multilingual: Strong.

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 19% (peak 24%)

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