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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 68
Hardware Fit
56 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec5.377.3
First chunk1624 ms177 ms
TTFT1.6 s177 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage7.9 GB1.2 GB
Memory %50%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate 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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