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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 82
Hardware Fit
81 vs 85
Quality Score
43 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx openai/gpt-oss-20b
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 openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec25.231.8
First chunk341 ms32 ms
TTFT6.3 s8.4 s
Load time3.4 s22.7 s
Memory usage8.4 GB0.0 GB
Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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