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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
54 vs 62
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
43 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
Tokens/sec25.267.2
First chunk341 ms66 ms
TTFT6.3 s68 ms
Load time3.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage8.4 GB0.2 GB
Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
1/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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