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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
54 vs 85
Hardware Fit
81 vs 79
Quality Score
43 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
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 qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec25.227.4
First chunk341 ms593 ms
TTFT6.3 s593 ms
Load time3.4 s0.3 s
Memory usage8.4 GB18.2 GB
Memory %52%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest