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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

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

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx nemotron-3.5-light…
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM16 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx nemotron-3.5-light…
Tokens/sec25.084.1
First chunk357 ms371 ms
TTFT357 ms30.0 s
Load time3.8 s0.3 s
Memory usage8.4 GB24.9 GB
Memory %52%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest