qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

54 vs 76

Hardware Fit

81 vs 92

Quality Score

43 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx gemma3:4b

MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M1 ProCortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM16 GB7 GB

GPUApple M1 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx gemma3:4b

Tokens/sec25.215.0

First chunk341 ms2380 ms

TTFT6.3 s2.4 s

Load time3.4 s13.6 s

Memory usage8.4 GB2.6 GB

Memory %52%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

gemma3:4b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

29/30

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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