qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 77

Hardware Fit

68 vs 100

Quality Score

54 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx yi: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 yi:6b

Tokens/sec16.727.6

First chunk23 msN/A

TTFT14.1 s210 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage7.8 GB3.6 GB

Memory %33%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

yi: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

yi:6b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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