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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 84
Hardware Fit
72 vs 82
Quality Score
45 vs 85

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.627.2
First chunk403 ms732 ms
TTFT10.2 s8.1 s
Load time4.3 s3.5 s
Memory usage9.1 GB7.1 GB
Memory %28%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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