qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

54 vs 64

Hardware Fit

81 vs 100

Quality Score

43 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec25.290.3

First chunk341 ms198 ms

TTFT6.3 s198 ms

Load time3.4 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB2.0 GB

Memory %52%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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