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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 95
Hardware Fit
94 vs 99
Quality Score
80 vs 93

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx openai/gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec25.029.3
First chunk357 ms21 ms
TTFT357 ms1.8 s
Load time3.8 s18.5 s
Memory usage8.4 GB0.0 GB
Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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