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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score
58 vs 91
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX
Cores1024
RAM24 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
Tokens/sec16.7175.3
First chunk23 ms224 ms
TTFT14.1 s224 ms
Load timeN/A6.1 s
Memory usage7.8 GB18.7 GB
Memory %33%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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