qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

55 vs 53

Hardware Fit

87 vs 72

Quality Score

41 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec68.218.6

First chunk3268 ms403 ms

TTFT3.3 s10.2 s

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage0.6 GB9.1 GB

Memory %2%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

24/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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

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