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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
54 vs 77
Hardware Fit
81 vs 67
Quality Score
43 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.220.3
First chunk341 ms4216 ms
TTFT6.3 s4.2 s
Load time3.4 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB5.6 GB
Memory %52%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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