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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 84
Hardware Fit
72 vs 94
Quality Score
45 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.625.0
First chunk403 ms357 ms
TTFT10.2 s357 ms
Load time4.3 s3.8 s
Memory usage9.1 GB8.4 GB
Memory %28%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

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

qwen3.5:9b-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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