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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
84 vs 82
Hardware Fit
94 vs 69
Quality Score
80 vs 87

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.020.4
First chunk357 ms1362 ms
TTFT357 ms1.4 s
Load time3.8 s34.2 s
Memory usage8.4 GB22.7 GB
Memory %52%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
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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