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qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q8_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0 lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14400FApple M4
Cores1610
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0 lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec37.777.3
First chunk120 ms177 ms
TTFT120 ms177 ms
Load time8.3 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB1.2 GB
Memory %26%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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