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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 66
Hardware Fit
81 vs 34
Quality Score
43 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec25.23.8
First chunk341 ms1637 ms
TTFT6.3 s1.6 s
Load time3.4 s17.0 s
Memory usage8.4 GB21.3 GB
Memory %52%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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