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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
85 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 76
Quality Score
79 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec41.425.0
First chunk162 ms787 ms
TTFT162 ms30.0 s
Load time8.1 s4.0 s
Memory usage5.9 GB7.1 GB
Memory %19%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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