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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
68 vs 71
Hardware Fit
91 vs 56
Quality Score
58 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec42.25.3
First chunk201 ms1624 ms
TTFT4.4 s1.6 s
Load time0.0 s4.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB7.9 GB
Memory %24%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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