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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
85 vs 53
Hardware Fit
95 vs 89
Quality Score
80 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec23.152.9
First chunk358 ms4013 ms
TTFT358 ms4.0 s
Load time3.6 sN/A
Memory usage9.1 GB0.6 GB
Memory %28%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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