qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 69

Hardware Fit

81 vs 50

Quality Score

43 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx mistralai/devstral…

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx mistralai/devstral…

Tokens/sec25.25.7

First chunk341 ms5007 ms

TTFT6.3 s5.0 s

Load time3.4 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB13.2 GB

Memory %52%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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