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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
84 vs 79
Hardware Fit
94 vs 59
Quality Score
80 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProDocker Container
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM16 GB15 GB
GPUApple M1 ProTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec25.09.3
First chunk357 ms21 ms
TTFT357 ms3.6 s
Load time3.8 s32.0 s
Memory usage8.4 GB1.8 GB
Memory %52%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
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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