mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

72 vs 57

Hardware Fit

99 vs 61

Quality Score

61 vs 55

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec86.330.3

First chunk253 ms205 ms

TTFT253 ms8.7 s

Load timeN/A5.6 s

Memory usage1.1 GB18.8 GB

Memory %4%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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