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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
84 vs 90
Hardware Fit
94 vs 97
Quality Score
80 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec25.024.0
First chunk357 ms300 ms
TTFT357 ms300 ms
Load time3.8 s3.6 s
Memory usage8.4 GB13.8 GB
Memory %52%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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