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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
58 vs 49
Hardware Fit
68 vs 54
Quality Score
54 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.721.6
First chunk23 ms1505 ms
TTFT14.1 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB22.7 GB
Memory %33%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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