qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

53 vs 64

Hardware Fit

72 vs 100

Quality Score

45 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec18.690.3

First chunk403 ms198 ms

TTFT10.2 s198 ms

Load time4.3 sN/A

Memory usage9.1 GB2.0 GB

Memory %28%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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