qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

unsloth-phi-4

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

58 vs 82

Hardware Fit

79 vs 88

Quality Score

49 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b unsloth-phi-4

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b unsloth-phi-4

Tokens/sec22.127.4

First chunk601 ms457 ms

TTFT9.1 s457 ms

Load time4.2 sN/A

Memory usage7.2 GB7.7 GB

Memory %45%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

48/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

26/30

unsloth-phi-4

Speed

38/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

unsloth-phi-4

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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