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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
54 vs 81
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
43 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama-3.1-8b-instr…
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM16 GB31 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama-3.1-8b-instr…
Tokens/sec25.235.6
First chunk341 ms52 ms
TTFT6.3 s256 ms
Load time3.4 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB8.6 GB
Memory %52%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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