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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
53 vs 89
Hardware Fit
72 vs 97
Quality Score
45 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.6129.4
First chunk403 ms49 ms
TTFT10.2 s49 ms
Load time4.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage9.1 GB20.5 GB
Memory %28%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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