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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

glm4:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

chatglm · 9.4B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 76
Hardware Fit
68 vs 88
Quality Score
54 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx glm4:9b
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 glm4:9b
Tokens/sec16.719.0
First chunk23 ms290 ms
TTFT14.1 s290 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB8.1 GB
Memory %33%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

glm4:9b

Speed
38/50
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

glm4:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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