qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score

54 vs 67

Hardware Fit

81 vs 77

Quality Score

43 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.2:3b

MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20U30029MB

CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-10210U

Cores108

RAM16 GB15 GB

GPUApple M1 ProCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]

OSmacOS 26.6.2Pop 24.04 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.2:3b

Tokens/sec25.210.0

First chunk341 ms1166 ms

TTFT6.3 s1.2 s

Load time3.4 s6.8 s

Memory usage8.4 GB3.8 GB

Memory %52%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed

27/50

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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