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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
54 vs 84
Hardware Fit
81 vs 93
Quality Score
43 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3:30b-a3b
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 qwen3:30b-a3b
Tokens/sec25.292.7
First chunk341 ms286 ms
TTFT6.3 s1.5 s
Load time3.4 s15.3 s
Memory usage8.4 GB20.3 GB
Memory %52%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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