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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 59
Hardware Fit
81 vs 94
Quality Score
43 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.245.3
First chunk341 ms2440 ms
TTFT6.3 s2.4 s
Load time3.4 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB0.0 GB
Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
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

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest