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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score
84 vs 62
Hardware Fit
94 vs 91
Quality Score
80 vs 50

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Cores1016
RAM16 GB15 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec25.0170.2
First chunk357 ms142 ms
TTFT357 ms142 ms
Load time3.8 s3.2 s
Memory usage8.4 GB1.6 GB
Memory %52%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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