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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b-iq2

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 74.0B · IQ2_XXS

Excellent

Oct 16, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
58 vs 90
Hardware Fit
68 vs 96
Quality Score
54 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3.5-bolt:…
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM24 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3.5-bolt:…
Tokens/sec16.749.9
First chunk23 ms370 ms
TTFT14.1 s370 ms
Load timeN/A7.6 s
Memory usage7.8 GB3.9 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a…

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest