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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

lfm2.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 11, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
54 vs 73
Hardware Fit
81 vs 93
Quality Score
43 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM16 GB23 GB
GPUApple M1 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Fedora Linux 44
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
Tokens/sec25.218.3
First chunk341 ms981 ms
TTFT6.3 s981 ms
Load time3.4 s8.0 s
Memory usage8.4 GB4.9 GB
Memory %52%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

lfm2.5:latest

Speed
43/50
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

lfm2.5:latest

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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