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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 93
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano
Tokens/sec16.793.3
First chunk23 ms257 ms
TTFT14.1 s257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB0.1 GB
Memory %33%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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