qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 62

Hardware Fit

79 vs 99

Quality Score

49 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec22.140.3

First chunk601 ms289 ms

TTFT9.1 s289 ms

Load time4.2 sN/A

Memory usage7.2 GB2.0 GB

Memory %45%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

48/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

26/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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