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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 66
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx hf.co/empero-ai/Qw…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx hf.co/empero-ai/Qw…
Tokens/sec25.026.5
First chunk357 ms447 ms
TTFT357 ms447 ms
Load time3.8 s3.3 s
Memory usage8.4 GB4.8 GB
Memory %52%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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