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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q5_K_XL

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
68 vs 73
Hardware Fit
91 vs 47
Quality Score
58 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl
MachineMacBook ProDocker Container
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM16 GB15 GB
GPUApple M1 ProTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl
Tokens/sec42.25.6
First chunk201 ms19 ms
TTFT4.4 s5.6 s
Load time0.0 s12.5 s
Memory usage3.8 GB0.0 GB
Memory %24%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

Speed
10/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
30/30

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@q5_k_xl

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