qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 79

Hardware Fit

81 vs 92

Quality Score

43 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.222.5

First chunk341 ms529 ms

TTFT6.3 s529 ms

Load time3.4 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB4.0 GB

Memory %52%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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