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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 70
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec25.084.1
First chunk357 msN/A
TTFT357 ms119 ms
Load time3.8 s0.5 s
Memory usage8.4 GB2.6 GB
Memory %52%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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