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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 82
Hardware Fit
72 vs 85
Quality Score
45 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b openai/gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec18.631.8
First chunk403 ms32 ms
TTFT10.2 s8.4 s
Load time4.3 s22.7 s
Memory usage9.1 GB0.0 GB
Memory %28%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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