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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 45
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 22

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx stablelm2:1.6b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx stablelm2:1.6b
Tokens/sec16.793.8
First chunk23 msN/A
TTFT14.1 s94 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage7.8 GB1.1 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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