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qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 59
Hardware Fit
85 vs 65
Quality Score
51 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:0.6b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4
Cores810
RAM23 GB24 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:0.6b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.014.3
First chunk597 ms24 ms
TTFT8.7 s13.4 s
Load time1.8 s13.3 s
Memory usage0.9 GB2.5 GB
Memory %4%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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