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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 1.94B · BF16

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
54 vs 66
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
43 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.240.2
First chunk341 ms101 ms
TTFT6.3 s101 ms
Load time3.4 s2.6 s
Memory usage8.4 GB4.7 GB
Memory %52%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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