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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama3.3:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
54 vs 73
Hardware Fit
81 vs 51
Quality Score
43 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.3:70b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM16 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx llama3.3:70b
Tokens/sec25.24.6
First chunk341 ms560 ms
TTFT6.3 s560 ms
Load time3.4 s13.8 s
Memory usage8.4 GB49.5 GB
Memory %52%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

llama3.3:70b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

llama3.3:70b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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