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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
58 vs 89
Hardware Fit
68 vs 96
Quality Score
54 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.748.5
First chunk23 ms39 ms
TTFT14.1 s283 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB13.7 GB
Memory %33%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
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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