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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
53 vs 82
Hardware Fit
81 vs 81
Quality Score
41 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores832
RAM8 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2Integrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec24.830.8
First chunk317 ms195 ms
TTFT7.4 s195 ms
Load time0.0 s6.8 s
Memory usage3.9 GB18.8 GB
Memory %49%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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