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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 75
Hardware Fit
81 vs 54
Quality Score
43 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.5-27b
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 qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec25.26.6
First chunk341 ms4364 ms
TTFT6.3 s4.4 s
Load time3.4 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB15.0 GB
Memory %52%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
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

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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