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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
46 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b 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

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec67.625.0
First chunk209 ms357 ms
TTFT209 ms357 ms
Load time1.9 s3.8 s
Memory usage2.6 GB8.4 GB
Memory %8%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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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