Test: Ornith-1.5 9B performs well on low-end hardware

zippydazoop · reddit · 2026-08-20

Testing on a mid-range laptop (4GB VRAM / 16GB RAM) for generating medical physics research scripts, the author found Ornith-1.5 9B outperformed Ling-3.0 Tiny, Qwen 3.5 4B, and Empero. It completed 5 out of 6 tasks in one shot and was the only model capable of improving code based on feedback, suggesting strong performance for its size on limited hardware.

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