Can Laptop · Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Radeon 890M) · 32 GB run Qwen3.5 9B?
32 GB unified · 120 GB/s memory bandwidth · Qwen3.5 9B has 9.7B parameters.
Short answer
Yes, comfortable for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.
Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (5.3 GB of weights) on Lemonade. Generation: 11–18 tok/s, leaving about 17 GB free for your other apps.
How it rates for each workload
Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.
| Workload | Verdict | Quant | Generation | First reply | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwith Open WebUI | Comfortable | Q4_K_M | 11–18 tok/s | ≈3 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Acceptable | Q5_K_M | 9–14 tok/s | ≈20 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Acceptable | Q6_K | 7–12 tok/s | ≈65 s | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 10–16 tok/s | ≈85 s | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Acceptable | Q6_K | 6–10 tok/s | ≈4 min | 64K | Details |
Speeds are bandwidth-based estimates; no direct benchmark exists for this pair. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate
Get it running
Copy-paste commands for the Q6_K build with a 64K context. Ollama and llama.cpp download the file straight from Hugging Face.
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF:Q6_K
Downloads 7.46 GB (Q6_K). Ollama's default context is small: set OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=65536 before `ollama serve` for long prompts.
Other models for Laptop · Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Radeon 890M) · 32 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- LFM2.5 24B-A2B35–60 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-20b20–35 tok/sExcellent
- MiniCPM5 2B20–35 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 4B15–25 tok/sExcellent
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct20–35 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B16–25 tok/sComfortable
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Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.