qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

54 vs 88

Hardware Fit

81 vs 80

Quality Score

43 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM16 GB128 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.276.7

First chunk341 ms29 ms

TTFT6.3 s30.0 s

Load time3.4 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB23.9 GB

Memory %52%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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