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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Qwen3-80B:80B

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score
54 vs 87
Hardware Fit
81 vs 76
Quality Score
43 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Qwen3-80B:80B
MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1020
RAM16 GB55 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Qwen3-80B:80B
Tokens/sec25.243.6
First chunk341 ms409 ms
TTFT6.3 s409 ms
Load time3.4 s80.3 s
Memory usage8.4 GB48.0 GB
Memory %52%88%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Qwen3-80B:80B

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

Qwen3-80B:80B

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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