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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

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LM-STUDIO GGUF

internlm2 · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 8, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
58 vs 55
Hardware Fit
68 vs 60
Quality Score
54 vs 53

Hardware

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MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.76.6
First chunk23 ms3037 ms
TTFT14.1 s3.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB1.1 GB
Memory %33%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

internlm2_5-1_8b-chat

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
21/30

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

internlm2_5-1_8b-chat

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
10/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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