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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
51 vs 84
Hardware Fit
46 vs 94
Quality Score
53 vs 80

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M1 Pro
Cores810
RAM15 GB16 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M1 Pro
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec2.625.0
First chunk5406 ms357 ms
TTFT5.4 s357 ms
Load time27.4 s3.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB8.4 GB
Memory %30%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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