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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 77
Hardware Fit
92 vs 67
Quality Score
63 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec120.720.3
First chunk93 ms4216 ms
TTFT1.5 s4.2 s
Load time2.5 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %5%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest