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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
84 vs 78
Hardware Fit
94 vs 86
Quality Score
80 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook Pro—
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1024
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec25.048.5
First chunk357 ms202 ms
TTFT357 ms4.3 s
Load time3.8 s4.2 s
Memory usage8.4 GB5.5 GB
Memory %52%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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