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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 75
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
43 vs 64

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
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 exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
Tokens/sec25.237.0
First chunk341 ms288 ms
TTFT6.3 s288 ms
Load time3.4 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB2.4 GB
Memory %52%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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