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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

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

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec25.270.2
First chunk341 ms58 ms
TTFT6.3 s58 ms
Load time3.4 s4.1 s
Memory usage8.4 GB4.9 GB
Memory %52%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

llama3.1:8b

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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