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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
54 vs 65
Hardware Fit
81 vs 92
Quality Score
43 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProiMac
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores108
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec25.219.6
First chunk341 ms690 ms
TTFT6.3 s690 ms
Load time3.4 s21.4 s
Memory usage8.4 GB1.0 GB
Memory %52%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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