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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
54 vs 73
Hardware Fit
81 vs 98
Quality Score
43 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
MachineMacBook ProMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM16 GB31 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
Tokens/sec25.261.4
First chunk341 ms381 ms
TTFT6.3 s381 ms
Load time3.4 s0.2 s
Memory usage8.4 GB12.2 GB
Memory %52%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
0/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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$ metrillm

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