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hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
52 vs 80

Hardware

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec26.525.0
First chunk447 ms357 ms
TTFT447 ms357 ms
Load time3.3 s3.8 s
Memory usage4.8 GB8.4 GB
Memory %30%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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