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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/gemma-4-e2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · Q8_0

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
58 vs 77
Hardware Fit
68 vs 75
Quality Score
54 vs 78

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.713.3
First chunk23 ms18 ms
TTFT14.1 s1.4 s
Load timeN/A8.1 s
Memory usage7.8 GB0.0 GB
Memory %33%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

lmstudio-community/gemm…

Speed
25/50
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

lmstudio-community/gemm…

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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