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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 77
Hardware Fit
99 vs 67
Quality Score
51 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec48.220.3
First chunkN/A4216 ms
TTFT195 ms4.2 s
Load time1.0 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB5.6 GB
Memory %8%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest