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mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
73 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
62 vs 80

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… 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

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec29.123.1
First chunk451 ms358 ms
TTFT451 ms358 ms
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage0.9 GB9.1 GB
Memory %3%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

qwen3.5:9b

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
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